It is Prime Minister’s Questions today and there is certainly much for Kemi Badenoch to go on. From increased government borrowing to the IMF’s UK downgrade, there is a veritable smorgasbord of failure for her to choose from. But Mr S wonders if there might be a more personal angle for Badenoch, following Keir Starmer’s six-day silence over the Supreme Court trans ruling…
For yesterday in the House of Commons, Badenoch used Bridget Phillipson’s statement – a masterclass in gaslighting – to turn her guns on Labour. She noted Starmer’s years of flip-flopping on gender issues and raised the specific question of Rosie Duffield: one of the ‘few female Labour politicians with the guts to stand up for vulnerable women and girls’ in the words of JK Rowling.
Duffield, the now-independent MP for Canterbury, quit the Labour party in disgust last September. It followed years of attacks by party activists and briefings against her by a senior former member of Starmer’s team.
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