Member

The other day, the Education Secretary said that smartphones have “no place” in schools, yet today the Government are going to whip Labour MPs to vote against getting smartphones out of our schools. That is just silly. Having initially claimed that our proposal for a ban was a “gimmick”, the Education Secretary now seems to be executing a very slow U-turn. However, when hon. Members look at the data on what smartphones and social media are doing to our kids, they will realise that we cannot wait for the Education Secretary to swallow her pride—we need to get on with it.