00:00We're banning social media for under 16s. One in three children are now spending five hours on
00:05social media a day and it's really affecting their family life, their relationships, their sleep,
00:09their mental health and of course their education. And nearly 40% of our teenagers say they wish
00:14social media had never been invented. 40%! Now that's our own kids telling us this is doing
00:19them harm. So today we're introducing a bill to parliament to get children under 16 off social
00:25media. You know I recently met a mum and she's lying awake at night because her daughter is being
00:30bullied online and is self-harming. Unable to really live up to the images she's been bombarded with
00:35every single day. Well we put boundaries around cars, around alcohol, around gambling but online
00:41we've left our kids almost completely unprotected. I know how people said banning phones in schools
00:47couldn't be done either. Now I'm telling you playgrounds are louder and there's a lot less
00:51cyberbullying going on too. So if we can do that, we can do this. Our kids don't get a
00:57second shot at childhood so for me that makes this worth the fight.
