Keir Starmer's attempts to placate big tech were a disaster. Andy Burnham must take a stand | Beeban Kidron

Labour came to power promising to tackle Silicon Valley. But from workers’ rights to online privacy it has failed at almost every turnDuring a recent conversation in the House of Lords, a former senior US government official told me that “democracy was broken”. When I asked why, they pointed to that showed that governments – regardless of party – represent the interests of the wealthy and not the people who vote for them.Nowhere is this more visible than with the tech lobby, which has effectively all attempts to hold the sector to account, while at the same time embedding its services into the heart of the state and our personal lives.Beeban Kidron is a crossbench peer and the author of How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back