Will Starmer have the courage to stand up for women's rights?

Gender ideology was perhaps the last topic which Labour wanted to be front and centre of the election campaign but public opinion and JK Rowling are forcing them to address it. While their proposals on tax and spend have attracted much scrutiny, until the bestselling author intervened this weekend sex and gender had been consigned to the periphery of the campaign. Close analysis of Labour’s manifesto reveals that it is on ‘the culture wars’ – from transgenderism to restitution to a proposed new ‘Race Equality Act’– where they will be the most distinctive, even radical.

There can be no doubt that the landscape surrounding the thorny issue of gender ideology has shifted dramatically over the past year. Many people who were once cowed into silence by a policy of ‘no debate’ now feel free to speak out.