Ding, ding, ding! It’s been such a busy week in Westminster with the reshuffle and President Zelenskyy popping in that Mr S missed a particularly combative clash at the Senedd on Tuesday. Undeterred by the recent woes of the nationalists at Holyrood, the Welsh government in Cardiff Bay has pressed on with its own controversial plans to make it easier to change gender.
But it seems that – much like the devolved government in Edinburgh – its Cardiff equivalent doesn’t take too kindly to a bit of scrutiny over their schemes. Laura Anne Jones, Conservative MS for South Wales East, asked one of Labour’s deputy ministers on Tuesday about the impact of its proposed changes on women-only spaces. Hannah Blythyn’s response? To give a big sigh before labelling her question as ‘shameful’, telling Jones that ‘your words have a dangerous impact’ and concluding that ‘I have nothing more to say.’
Talk about allaying concerns, eh? As one Welsh Tory sighed to Mr S: ‘It’s going to be Scotland 2.0.’
