Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of lacking “moral courage” on transgender issues during heated exchanges at Prime Minister’s Questions. Last week, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex under equalities law, meaning, for instance, that transgender women, who are biologically male but identify as women, can be excluded from women-only spaces.Sir Keir said the court’s ruling provided “clarity” and that it was now “time to lower the temperature” on the debate.Badenoch said the prime minister didn’t “have the balls” to say where he stood and likened him to a “weather vane”.”This is a choice between a Conservative Party that stood up for common sense and a Labour Party that bent the knee to every passing fad,” she said.”This is a question about moral courage, about doing the right thing even when it is difficult.”On Tuesday, Sir Keir’s spokesman said the prime minister did not believe transgender women were women. That contrasted with comments he made in 2022, when he told the Times “a woman is a female adult, and in addition to that transwomen are women, and that is not just my view – that is actually the law”.In the first Prime Minister’s Questions since the Supreme Court’s ruling, Badenoch used all six of her questions to press the prime minister on the issue.She asked if he would apologise to Rosie Duffield, the MP who left Labour last year and whom Badenoch said had been “hounded out” of the party.Sir Keir did not a …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnConservative leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of lacking “moral courage” on transgender issues during heated exchanges at Prime Minister’s Questions. Last week, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex under equalities law, meaning, for instance, that transgender women, who are biologically male but identify as women, can be excluded from women-only spaces.Sir Keir said the court’s ruling provided “clarity” and that it was now “time to lower the temperature” on the debate.Badenoch said the prime minister didn’t “have the balls” to say where he stood and likened him to a “weather vane”.”This is a choice between a Conservative Party that stood up for common sense and a Labour Party that bent the knee to every passing fad,” she said.”This is a question about moral courage, about doing the right thing even when it is difficult.”On Tuesday, Sir Keir’s spokesman said the prime minister did not believe transgender women were women. That contrasted with comments he made in 2022, when he told the Times “a woman is a female adult, and in addition to that transwomen are women, and that is not just my view – that is actually the law”.In the first Prime Minister’s Questions since the Supreme Court’s ruling, Badenoch used all six of her questions to press the prime minister on the issue.She asked if he would apologise to Rosie Duffield, the MP who left Labour last year and whom Badenoch said had been “hounded out” of the party.Sir Keir did not a …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
