Sir Keir Starmer has revealed that he is looking at adolescence while calls grow to the HIT Netflix mini series that are shown in schools.
The thriller with Stephen Graham, who is also a co-writer, focuses on 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), who is accused of killing a schoolgirl.
It has seized the nation, which since last week wins an eye reinforcement of 24.3 million views.
One of the millions of viewers is Sir Keir who told PMQs yesterday that he was watching the show with his teenage children.
Asked by Labor MP Anneliese Midgley if he supports the calls of the makers to be broadcast in parliament and schools, Sir Keir said that he does that.
Sir Keir said: 'At home we look at adolescence. I have a 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, and it's a very good drama to watch.
'This violence performed by young men, influenced by what they see online, is a real problem.
“It's disgusting and we have to tackle it.”
Sir Keir Starmer at the PMQs said yesterday: 'At home we look at adolescence. I have a 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, and it's a very good drama to watch '
The thriller with Stephen Graham (left), who is also a co-writer, concentrates on 13-year-old Jamie Miller played by Owen Cooper (right) accused of killing a schoolgirl
Cooper's display of Jamie has been praised and has put forward a discussion about the impact of social media on children
Graham and fellow co-writer Jack Thorne said they wanted the much-praised series to cause and make change '.
Speaking with Sky News, the culture secretary Lisa Nandy said that the government was “sharply aware” of the problems addressed in adolescence.
The hit show has led to a discussion about the impact of social media on children.
In writing for the post on Sunday, Minister Jess Phillips said to protect: “Adolescence is not just a TV drama – it is a disturbing look in the heads of thousands of young British boys distorted by the extreme violence and sexual abuse of which they witness online every day.”
To try to limit the violent and dangerous content to which children are exposed to social media, Labor continues with the Online Harms ACT – a bill to make social media companies more responsible for the safety of the user on their platforms.
However, some MPs want more radical steps to be taken, including the bill of a private member of the age of social media permission from 13 to 16.
Although this was later weakened to get the support of the government.
Speaking on Radio X, Graham said that the idea for the series came to him to look at the epidemic of knife crime in the UK.
Labor MP Anneliese Midgley (photo) asked the prime minister if he supports the calls of the makers to be broadcast adolescence in parliament and schools
The culture secretary Lisa Nandy said that the government was “sharply aware” of the issues addressed in adolescence
With his wife Hannah Walters in the show, the actor said: 'Okay, let's make this serious character of the show on the road, and then we can have some fun, with all due respect.
'Look, it started when I read an article, and it was an article about a young boy who had put a young girl dead, and you know, it made me cold.
'And a few months later there was a piece about the news, and it was about a young boy who had put a young girl dead, and when I am really honest, they came to hurt my heart.
“And these two incidents were opposite ends of the country. And I just thought, “Why? Why is this happening?”
“Not only because I am a father, but I think a kind of person with a gram of moral compass can look at that kind of situation and think:” What happens? What is the matter with society today in which we find ourselves? “
Grahm added that the wave of stabbing was a sharp contrast with the world in which he grew up.
Graham said the idea for the series came to him to look at the epidemic of knife crime in the UK
“We enter this kind of era where there were four, five, six, seven cases of young boys – and I will call them young boys, they are not men – girls die,” he said.
“And, you know, that beautiful saying:” A village is needed to raise a child, “I just wanted to make something that looked at it from that perspective, but also looked at it, look, maybe we are all somehow responsible, whether they are those parents, that school, community, society, society.
'And now, let's be completely honest, when I was a child when we were children, we didn't have things like this. But today the internet is also a teacher and a parent for our children as we can be. Do you know what I mean? And that was a bit of where it came from. '
The show is on track to break all streaming records and also to receive a number of prizes with Cooper's performance now among the favorites to get an Emmy later this year.
