New Labour minister believes people can identify as llamas

Dear oh dear. In the last hour, Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Ashley Dalton MP to replace Andrew Gwynne as health minister – after the latter was sacked and suspended over the weekend over some rather offensive message exchanges. But it would appear that Dalton is not without her skeletons either. Mr S can reveal that the new public health minister has voiced some quite odd views in the past on gender ideology…

Dalton has in the past tweeted that ‘trans women are women’ regardless of biology and believes in gender self-identification, writing in 2016: ‘I think people should be able to define their own gender and that society should be set up to support not hinder that.’ And, in a rather concerning revelation about the new public health appointee, Dalton has even stated in 2016 that she believes ‘we shouldn’t have gendered bathrooms at all’. Golly.

The Labour MP has also criticised the use of the private sector to get waiting lists down, in 2023 claiming that patients were being ‘left behind’ under privatisation, despite her own Health Secretary Wes Streeting having defended the use of the private sector to tackle treatment lists.