Online safety laws ‘unsatisfactory’ and ‘uneven’, says UK science minister

Peter Kyle frustrated at bill inherited from Tories and says parliament should legislate faster to protect public

Online safety legislation is unsatisfactory" and uneven", the science secretary has said as he expressed hopes for parliament to learn to legislate faster on the issue.

Peter Kyle said he had given a very personal commitment to making sure that everybody - particularly people with vulnerabilities, and every child is vulnerable - has protection", after Ian Russell, whose daughter killed herself after viewing harmful content on social media, told Keir Starmer the UK was going backwards" on online safety.