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British politicians still scrolling 12 months on from TikTok ban on government devices

The British defence secretary Grant Shapps was forced to ditch TikTok from official devices, but remains an avid user

Rows over the app have simmered in parliamentary circles in London

In a video recently posted on TikTok, a man in his mid-fifties stands beside a tank in Kyiv wearing an olive-green jacket, speaking directly to the audience about the war in Ukraine.

There would be nothing remarkable about this fact if the man was not Grant Shapps, the British defence secretary.

The Conservative minister has stubbornly stuck to the app, 12 months on from the UK government's decision to ban it from official phones over ...