Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s successor struggles to define a woman

Is Labour’s state of confusion about sex and gender going global? Labour leader Keir Starmer was widely mocked this weekend when he was asked by the Sunday Times to define a woman, and claimed that 99.9 per cent of women don’t have a penis – which if nothing else, rather contradicted his previous assertion that it was wrong to say that only women have a cervix.

Now though his gender vacillation appears to be causing problems all the way over in New Zealand for Jacinda Ardern’s successor as Prime Minister, the Labour politician Chris Hipkins.

Asked in a press conference how he and his government would define a woman – in light of Starmer’s remarks – the Kiwi PM floundered, complaining that, ‘To be honest… That question has come slightly out of the left field for me.’ He then began to list ‘biology, sex, gender’ before hastily adding that ‘people define their own genders’.