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Starmer squirms on trans rights

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It may be winter but Sir Keir is already sporting flip flops. The Labour leader’s appearance on Laura Kuenssberg’s show this morning was the best advert for voting Tory seen in recent months, with Starmer unable to give basic answers to simple questions. Having broken most of the ten pledges on which he was elected – and which are still listed on his website – he refused four times to say whether he still stands by his pledge to abolish tuition fees. ‘When I was running for leader I made pledges which reflected my values,’ he sighed ‘since then, we’re now three years on, a lot has changed’. By that logic, Starmer’s current policy platform, er, doesn’t actually reflect his values?

Such vacillation was on show again when Kuenssberg pressed Starmer on the tricky topic of trans rights. Sir Keir has appeared to hold a veritable smorgasbord of views on the issue in recent years.

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