https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/10/sexual-deepfakes-are-a-disgrace-and-we-wont-stand-for-it/
Liz Kendall, Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary, in the Sunday Telegraph today writing about the Grok scandal.
She says it's time to choose a side. MPs can either support the action the Government is taking under the Online Safety Act or they can ally with those who think the creation and publication of sexually manipulated images of women and children is acceptable. She says the Online Safety Act includes the power to apply to the courts to block services in the UK if they refuse to comply with UK law. She goes on to say the Government will not stand by while platforms treat complying with UK law as optional. She says they won't hesitate to strengthen UK law if that is what is required to keep women and girls safe.
All well and good. Yet the Government is so far continuing to flout the law as clarified by the Supreme Court in April about single sex spaces, a law intended to keep women and girls safe in real life.
Come on Labour. Either the law is the law or it isn't. Which is it?