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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said the department will no longer use Elon Musk's social media platform X - declaring that it "now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate". It's the second government department to withdraw from the platform, after the Attorney General told his office not to use X last month. Ms Nandy said she would also stop posting, saying it wasn't healthy for democracy.

The Secretary of State responsible for the media has quit X — along with her department — because of what she says is the spread of misinformation, dubbing the platform a danger to democracy. Despite professing to be a champion of free speech, Lisa Nandy also turned off comments on her post. Lisa Nandy has served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in the most authoritarian government in modern British history. If she truly believes in free speech, was she not concerned that around 30 people a day are arrested for allegedly “offensive” social media posts? Why was she in the House of Commons only last week spearheading government plans to dictate what content citizens see online? And if Lisa Nandy cares so deeply about democracy, why was she so quiet when the Government sought to cancel a significant proportion of this year’s local elections? Most concerning of all, Lisa Nandy — a close ally of our next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham — would, if she remains in post, likely be the minister charged with leading the Government’s campaign against Britain’s free press, acting on the wishes of Burnham and Hugh Grant. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said: “DCMS is supposed to counter and deal with misinformation, not run away because it’s all too much.” Read more below 👇