PM reveals he watches Adolescence with family and backs call to tackle misogyny

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said determination was a request to tackle the "emerging and increasing problem" raised by caller TV play Adolescence.

The four-part bid co-written and starring histrion Stephen Graham, from Kirkby, Merseyside, follows a household whose lives are blown isolated erstwhile their teenage lad is arrested for sidesplitting a pistillate classmate.

The play released past week shines a airy connected the corrosive interaction of societal media and misogynist influencers connected immoderate teenage boys. It was the most-watched amusement connected Netflix astir the satellite implicit the weekend.

Starmer said helium and his household had been watching the serial aft Knowsley MP Anneliese Midgley raised the contented astatine Prime Ministers Questions earlier.

Midgley told the Commons "everyone" was talking astir the series, whose stars Graham and Christine Tremarco, were some calved successful her constituency.

The Labour MP said it "highlights online antheral radicalisation and unit against girls" and that "the creators of the amusement are calling for screenings successful Parliament and successful schools to spark change".

She asked the Prime Minister to backmost the run "to antagonistic toxic misogyny early" and "give young men the relation models they deserve".

Starmer responded his household had besides been glued to the show.

He said: "At location we are watching Adolescence with our children.

"I've got a 16-year-old lad and a 14-year-old miss and it's a truly bully play to watch."

He said the unit carried retired by young men influenced by what they spot online was "abhorrent" and "we person to tackle it."

He added the authorities was taking steps specified arsenic putting successful specializer rape and intersexual offences teams successful constabulary forces crossed the state dealing with 999 calls.

However, helium said the issues raised successful Adolescence were "a substance of culture" which helium said "it's important crossed the full location that we tackle this emerging and increasing problem".

It comes arsenic the erstwhile England manager Gareth Southgate spoke retired astir masculinity and the "manosphere".

In a wide-ranging speech for the BBC's yearly Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Southgate said helium feared young men were spending excessively overmuch clip gaming, gambling and watching pornography - and that they needed amended role models beyond online influencers.