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Who thinks creators of deepfake porn can be excused? Labour ministers, it seems | Polly Toynbee

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Keir Starmer told his cabinet they must become disruptors if you don’t want to be disrupted’ But timidity, caution and hesitation have damaged too many of Labour ’s bold policies.

This week , one policy decision that went largely unnoticed suggests his party is still far from embracing disruption.

Tens of thousands of deepfake porn images are produced every week , many of celebrities.

If Labour is now seen to backtrack on the whole thing, this will only help undermine the public’s trust in its politics, and its radicalism. With terrible choices ahead in the spending review, Labour should be shoring up its position on everything it can right now with no vacillating, pressing full steam ahead on disruption. - Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist.