Britain deserves better than Keir Starmer’s opportunism

A few weeks ago, Keir Starmer was told by his advisers that he would have to U-turn on his radical stance on trans rights or he would not win the next general election. One senior Labour source told the Times back then: ‘If Keir is still being asked by the time the election campaign begins what a woman is, then he’s lost on day one. Scotland is a warning to him… self-ID is not going to happen under a Labour government.’

So it was only a matter of time before Starmer’s support for gender self-ID went the way of many of his other principled stances such as support for free movement, nationalising utilities, banning private sector involvement in the NHS. Not to mention abolishing student fees, the idea that Jeremy Corbyn was fit to be prime minister and Shamima Begum’s right to be a British citizen.

Though Starmer has not quite yet bitten the bullet on acknowledging that male transsexuals are not in fact women, he is not now committing to bring in gender self-certification, as Nicola Sturgeon has attempted to do north of the border.