Watch: Starmer finally welcomes Supreme Court gender ruling

Hurrah! The day has finally come: Prime Minister Keir Starmer has, after almost a week of deafening silence, eventually got round to welcoming the Supreme Court’s unanimous judgment that backed the biological definition of a woman. In a rather revealing clip on ITV News today, the PM insisted to interviewers that he is ‘pleased’ about the ruling because it backs up his firm belief that a woman is an ‘adult human female’. But the question of how long Sir Keir has held this view is quite another matter…

When quizzed by reporters today about whether he believed ‘a trans woman is a woman’, the Labour leader asserted: ‘A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear.’

He went on, declaring strenuously:

I actually welcome the judgment because I think it gives real clarity. It allows those that have got to draw up guidance to be really clear about what that guidance should say.