Watch: Lloyd Russell-Moyle called out over his behaviour in gender debate

Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, received a rather humiliating dressing down in the Commons today. His ticking off followed the Health Secretary’s statement on Dr Hilary Cass’s report into gender services. During his intervention, a holier-than-thou Russell-Moyle welcomed the report for moving the discussion on but claimed that his reading of the review found fault with people being ‘particularly nasty and vicious on all sides’. The Labour MP spoke of how he had faced abuse himself over the trans issue, and posters with ‘rude words’ had been put outside his house.

What Mr S can’t quite comprehend is that this MP — who appeared to be lecturing the Chamber on common courtesy — is the same Russell-Moyle who, after shouting down Tory MP Miriam Cates during a discussion on Scotland’s gender bill in January 2023, was accused of trying to further intimidate the vocal women’s rights campaigner by going to sit by her on the Tory benches. The hypocrisy is galling…

And today Health Secretary Victoria Atkins decided she’d had enough too, telling the MP:

I’m sorry, but I think there is a certain amount of disbelief in the Chamber because I cannot be the only one who remembers the debate of January 2023 where the member opposite not only tried to shout down female colleagues on his side of the house but felt so exercised about the debate which was to do with the Scottish gender recognition act, he crossed the floor of the house to come and sit on the bench next to my honourable friend for Penistone and Stocksbridge. And I remember, those of us on this side of the house were genuinely surprised that a Member of Parliament would think it was appropriate to behave in that way when debating something that we are entitled and should feel free to debate.