Labour minister admits to PM’s ‘confusion’ over trans issue

Ding ding ding! Sparks were flying this morning on Sky News as host Wilfred Frost interviewed the rather combative Home Office minister Diana Johnson about last week’s Supreme Court judgment – which backed the biological definition of a woman. The duo entered into a tense back-and-forth on Sir Keir Starmer’s belated reaction to it all – six days after the ruling, as Mr S noted yesterday – with Johnson eventually admitting that the PM’s dithering on the definition of a woman had contributed to the ‘confusion’ around the trans debate. Better late than never, eh?

Today’s interview follows last Wednesday’s news that Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled that ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act referred to biological sex, in a round victory for campaign group For Women Scotland. Yet despite the momentous judgment leading newspapers across the country last week, the PM was spotting keeping rather quiet on the whole issue, while Labour ministers Sir Chris Bryant and Angela Eagle attacked