Kemi Badenoch labels Sir Keir Starmer a "weathervane who twists in the wind" as she claims he "doesn't have the balls" to express his views on gender. Sir Keir, who has previously said "trans women are women", welcomes the Supreme Court ruling and says it is "time now to lower the temperature" of the transgender debate. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00This government's approach and my approach has been as follows.
00:03To support and implement the Supreme Court ruling, and we will.
00:07To continue to protect single-sex spaces based on biological sex, and we will.
00:12But also to ensure that trans people are treated with respect, and we will.
00:18And to ensure that everybody is given dignity in their everyday lives.
00:23I do think this is the time now to lower the temperature.
00:25To move forward, and to conduct this debate with the care and compassion that it deserves.
00:34And I think that should unite the whole House.
00:39This is a choice between a Conservative Party that stood up for common sense,
00:43and a Labour Party that bent the knee to every passing fad.
00:48This is a question about moral courage, Mr Speaker.
00:51About doing the right thing, even when it is difficult.
00:55And the truth is, he doesn't have the balls.
01:00The Prime Minister only tells people what they want to hear.
01:05He only tells people what they want to hear.
01:07He is a weather vane who twists in the wind.
01:10He cheered an ideology that denied safe spaces to women and girls because he thought it was cool to do so.
01:16He hounded a brave female MP out of his party for telling the truth he accepts now.
01:21And now, he is hiding behind the Supreme Court judgment.
01:26And isn't that because he doesn't know what he actually believes?
01:30I can only assume that sounded better when she did it in the mirror earlier on.
01:34But the truth is, it doesn't really matter what the Leader of the Opposition says,
01:40because nobody believes, none of them, that she's going to lead them into the next election anyway.