As the Conservatives face another round of allegations of Tory sleaze, Labour is doing what it does best: having an internal row about trans rights. After Labour MP Rosie Duffield found herself heckled by her own side for speaking out on her concerns over the SNP”s Scottish gender recognition bill, she penned an article likening being in the Labour Party to an abusive relationship and criticising Keir Starmer over his ‘silence’ following the incident.
Those claims do not appear to have landed well in the Leader’s Office. Rather than entering a period of reflection, the Mail on Sunday reports that a senior aide to Keir Starmer said ‘it would be nice’ if Duffield ‘spent a bit more time’ in her constituency of Canterbury rather than ‘hanging out with JK Rowling’. Rowling has bonded with Duffield in the past over their shared interest in women’s rights and protecting single-sex spaces.
Duffield has hit back at this anonymous adviser:
‘Never had the pleasure of meeting this unelected ‘HeadOfComms’ person.But
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