The conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to lack “moral courage” on transgender matters heated exchanges duration in Prime Minister’s questions.
Last week, the United Kingdom Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman should bb biological sex under the equality law, which means, for example, that transgender women, who are biologically masculine but who are women, can be excluded from women-vom.
Sir Keir said the court ruling tested “clarity” and that now it was “the time to reduce the temperature” in the debate.
Badenoch said the prime minister did not “have the balls” to say where he was standing and likes a “weather weather vane.”
“This is a election between a conservative party that defended common sense and a Labor Party that is the knee of each fashion fashion,” he said.
“This is a question about moral courage, about doing the right thing even when it is difficult.”
On Tuesday, Sir Keir spokesman said the prime minister did not believe that transgender women were women.
That contrast to the comments he made in 2022, when he told The Times “a woman is an adult, and in addition to those trans women are women, and that is not just my opinion, that is real law.”
In the questions of the First Prime Minister from the ruling of the Supreme Court, Badenoch used his six questions to press the Prime Minister on the subject.
She asked him if he would apologize to Rosie Duffield, the deputy who left the laborists last year and that Badenoch said he had “removed” from the party.
Sir Keir did not respond directly, instead, he said that his approach would be based on the control “to all with dignity and respect.”
“When we lose sight of that approach and make this a political football, as happened in the past, we ended with the show of a decent man, and he was a decent man, the first prime minister [Rishi Sunak]Decreasing in this shipping box by making trans jokes while the mother of a killed teenager watched from the public gallery just there, “he said.
“That will never be my approach.”
Last year, Sir Keir and Sunak Red about a transgender comment that the latter made the day Esther Ghey, the mother of the murdered transgender adolescent, Brianna, was visiting Parliament.
Duration PMQS, Sir Keir sought to attack Badenoch’s history, accusing her of not doing “nothing” when he was women and equalities.
Badenoch defended his history, the parliamentarians he had helped to commission Cass review on gender identity for young people, and blocked the gender recognition reform bill in Scotland.
On the contrary, he said that the Labor Parliamentarians were questioning the ruling of the Supreme Court.
Sir Keir replied that he should be more concerned about his own parliamentarians, specifically the Secretary of Justice of the Shadows Robert Jenrick, who, he said, was planning to replace her as the party leader and try to form a coalition with reform of the United Kingdom.
After the question session in the commons, a Downing Street spokesman was asked if the prime minister would apologize to Duffield.
The spokesman said he did not want “Indvidualishetetet”, but added: “It is clearly the case that there are individuals, women who have helped achieve this legal clarity, who has not dealt with the right of the right. This is that it is this data.” “
He added that the prime minister “would complete the death threats of condemning” received by the Scotland women who presented the legal case of the Supreme Court, adding that they were “completely unacceptable.”
