Watch: Kemi eviscerates Labour’s trans U-turn

Talk about a turn-up for the books. In an unusual breach with convention, it was Kemi Badenoch rising for HM Loyal Opposition this afternoon to respond to Bridget Phillipson’s statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling last week. But the Tory leader – whose conviction on same-sex spaces has been applauded by JK Rowling among others – certainly made it a moment to remember as she tore into the government for its cowardice on this issue. Badenoch said:

I could not believe my eyes or my ears this afternoon. In 2021 the prime minister said it is not right to say only women have a cervix. In 2022 he said it is the law that trans women are women. In 2023 he said, and I quote, “99% of women don’t have a penis”. I know what a woman is, and I always have the people of this country know what a woman is.