Well, well, well. The Prime Minister’s nonsensical flip-flopping on the trans issue has been laid out for all to see and yet Sir Keir Starmer is still refusing to apologise for his dithering on the gender debate. More than that, he has today refused to say sorry for his emphatic opposition to the views (with which he now apparently agrees) of his former colleague and women’s rights campaigner Rosie Duffield.
In a strong PMQs performance this afternoon, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch tore into Starmer over his gender U-turn. And despite the PM being given multiple opportunities to apologise for his earlier claims that it was ‘not right’ to say only women had cervixes or that ‘99.9 per cent of women ‘of course haven’t got a penis’, Starmer remained silent. How very revealing…
During a grilling by the Leader of the Opposition in his first PMQs post-recess, Starmer was asked whether he accepts that when he said ‘trans women are women’ he was wrong.
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