My trip to Makerfield convinced me I’ve got something very wrong

There is nothing like being right. Being so certain. Feeling the kind of self assurance that makes you walk taller and command a room with your thinking. That was where I was on Monday morning.Keir Starmer had delivered one of his most assured, most prime ministerial statements of his premiership – the long awaited, and indeed longed-for, ban on social media for the under-16s.It was time to give children back their childhoods, argued the PM. And to give parents a break from hammering them.