Nandy Quits X and Pulls Her Department Off the Platform
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy announced that she and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport are leaving X, saying the platform “isn’t healthy for our democracy or our communities” and that it favours abuse and misinformation. She cited far-right content fuelling violence and division. Nandy is the most senior minister yet to abandon the platform, and the first to withdraw an entire government department from it.
A cabinet minister removing a department from X converts personal protest into government policy, and sets a precedent every other department will now be asked about. The tension is practical as well as principled: X remains a primary channel for emergency communications and public information, and withdrawal fragments that reach — raising the question of where official statements of record will live. The timing, during a leadership transition, means the incoming government will inherit the precedent without having chosen it. Watch whether other departments follow and whether No 10 sets a cross-government position.