PMQs: Kemi Badenoch accuses Keir Starmer of having 'no balls' after trans women U-turn
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00:00Does the Prime Minister now accept that when he said that it was the law that trans women were women, he was wrong?
00:08Well, Mr Speaker, let me be clear. I welcome the Supreme Court ruling on this issue.
00:13It brings clarity and it will give confidence to women and, of course, to service providers.
00:21I do think this is the time now to lower the temperature.
00:23To move forward and to conduct this debate with the care and compassion that it deserves.
00:32And I think that should unite the whole House.
00:35Where was he? He hid for six days without commenting on the Supreme Court judgment.
00:40Why did it take him so long to respond? Isn't it because he was scared?
00:46Mr Speaker, the only fiction here is the idea she delivered anything in office.
00:49She held the post of Minister for Women and Equalities for two years and she did precisely nothing.
00:59She provided no clarity on the law, did nothing to improve women's lives, which got maturely worse under her watch.
01:07She's a spectator, not a leader.
01:09This is a choice between a Conservative Party that stood up for common sense and a Labour Party that bent the knee to every passing fad.
01:16This is a question about moral courage, Mr Speaker, about doing the right thing, even when it is difficult.
01:25And the truth is, he doesn't have the balls.
01:30The Prime Minister only tells people what they want to hear.
01:35He only tells people what they want to hear.
01:37He is a weather vane who twists in the wind.
01:39He cheered an ideology that denied safe spaces to women and girls because he thought it was cool to do so.
01:45He hounded a brave female MP out of his party for telling the truth he accepts now.
01:51And now he is hiding behind the Supreme Court judgment.
01:55And isn't that because he doesn't know what he actually believes?
01:59I can only assume that sounded better when she did it in the mirror earlier on.
02:05But the truth is, it doesn't really matter what the Leader of the Opposition says, because nobody believes, none of them, that she's going to lead them into the next election anyway.
02:15It's going to be the shadowed justice.
02:17He's away plotting, that's why he's not here today, Mr Speaker.
02:20And the Member for Clacton fighting over the bones of the Tory party.
02:29He's away plotting, that's why he's not here today, Mr Speaker.