Shadow justice secretary told students ‘life becomes a lot harder’ if ‘the right is not united’, according to Sky
At the Downing Street lobby briefing yesterday, the PM’s spokesperson said that Keir Starmer no longer argues that a trans woman is a woman. In his interview on the Today programme this morning, Adrian Ramsay, co-leader of the Green party, which has always been a strong advocate for trans rights, was not prepared to say that. But he did say that Green party members who do say that trans women aren’t women should not be expelled.
When the presenter, Nick Robinson, asked Ramsay if trans women were women, Ramsay replied:
What the decision from the supreme court last week has done is to provide some clarity in terms of the Equality Act.
I think the important thing here, Nick, is not to get hung up in divisions.
Last week’s ruling has highlighted the potential for some services to be provided based on sex. The question is, how do we ensure that both women and trans people have access to the services that they need in a way that meets their needs and preserves their dignity.
I do defend the right of people to express that view, and in our party and in the wider society, we need to be able to have an open and respectful conversation about how we ensure services are delivered in a way that meets everybody’s needs.
[Reform UK] continues to do well in the polls. And my worry is that they become a kind of permanent or semi-permanent fixture on the British political scene. And if that is the case – and I say, I am trying to do everything I can to stop that being the case – then life becomes a lot harder for us, because the right is not united.
And then you head towards the general election, where the nightmare scenario is that Keir Starmer sails in through the middle as a result of the two parties being disunited. I don’t know about you, but I’m not prepared for that to happen.
Kemi Badenoch needs to urgently come clean as to whether she backs her shadow justice secretary in doing grubby deals with Reform behind the electorate’s back or if she will rule it out.
If she disagrees with Robert Jenrick, how can her leadership have any credibility whilst he remains in her shadow cabinet?
The cat is out of the bag, senior Conservatives are plotting a grubby election deal with Nigel Farage.
Kemi Badenoch should sack Robert Jenrick now if she’s serious about ruling out a pact with Reform. Anything less would show she’s either too weak to sack him or that she agrees.
