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Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, no longer believes that a trans woman is a woman, his official spokesman said at a lobby briefing. He was asked about this six days after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex in equalities law. The justices unanimously allowed an appeal by the campaign group For Women Scotland in a case against the Scottish government. Sex-based protections, notably in the Equality Act 2010, the court found, only apply to people who are born in that sex, not to those whose gender is reassigned. The court emphasised that transgender people still have protections against discrimination and harassment written into the Equality Act. J.K. Rowling, the pro-woman campaigner, tweeted: ‘Spare a thought today for the UK employers, government departments, health boards, academic institutions and sporting bodies who’ve been breaking equality law to appease activist groups. So many HR manuals to pulp.’ The sculptural banner held by the statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square was scrawled with the words ‘Fag rights’ during a rally by thousands of trans rights protestors.
Government borrowing in the year to March reached £151.9 billion, £14.6 billion higher than projections last month by the Office for Budget Responsibility. The International Monetary Fund said that ‘domestic factors’ meant that it now expected the British economy to grow by 1.1 per cent this year, not the 1.6 per cent predicted in January. A fall in petrol prices reduced the annual inflation rate in March to 2.6 per cent from 2.8 per cent in February. General practitioners will be paid £20 each time they decide not to send a patient to hospital under a government scheme to help reduce the NHS waiting list.
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