There have been better times to attack Starmer on his lack of clarity on transgender self-ID. Sunak joked that Starmer had “broken every single promise he was elected on” including “defining a woman, although in fairness that was only 99% of a U-turn…”. Starmer publicised that murdered child Brianna Ghey’s mother was in the public gallery today…
Judge Justice Yip has concluded that Ghey’s being trans was a motive in her murder. Starmer responded: “Of all the weeks to say that – when Brianna’s mother is in this chamber. Shame“. Pretty terrible prep work from Sunak’s team…
UPDATE: Hacks are now trying to work out whether Ghey’s mother had come out into the gallery at the time the original remark was made.
UPDATE II: Sunak’s press secretary has refused to apologise for the joke and says “I think it is legitimate for the PM to have pointed out the number of u-turns”.
Kemi Badenoch defended her decision not to force Tory councils to hold elections in May, telling GB News:
“It is Conservative policy that we should have elections, but I’m not a dictator. You know Nigel Farage, no one else makes any decisions, he’s a one-man band.”