Not sure what Sunak was thinking, but I equally find Starmers faux-outrage to be a bit distasteful considering Labours own issues with TERFS.
At the same time...just apologise mate. Doubling down isn't the play here.
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I don't think he was thinking - I think he had his scripted joke and was going to deliver it no matter what. I've noticed he has the tendency in interviews to just repeat his answers when and interviewer tries to dig into a topic, he's just not good at thinking on his feet.
Similar to when he brings out the Jeremy Corbyn digs at PMQs. That was ages ago mate, get over it.
That was like 2 PM's ago. Back when we had a PM the country had voted for, back before we had a PM his own party had voted for.
He won’t be bullied by the powerful checks notes murdered teenager lobby
The parents of murdered children have had it too good for too long.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rishi Sunak has refused to apologise to Brianna Ghey’s father and said it was “sad and wrong” to link his jibe about transgender people to the murdered teenager’s case.
Sunak has been urged to apologise after accusing the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, of having difficulty “defining a woman” at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday.
“But to use that tragedy to detract from the very separate and clear point I was making about Keir Starmer’s proven track record of multiple U-turns on major policies, because he doesn’t have a plan, I think is both sad and wrong, and it demonstrates the worst of politics.”
The former minister Jackie Doyle-Price told Times Radio that while she was an advocate of balancing transgender rights with the protection of single-sex spaces, Sunak’s comment “trivialises something that’s very important” and was “frankly very ill-judged”.
Dehenna Davison, another former minister, said on X that it was “disappointing to hear jokes being made at the trans community’s expense”, adding: “Our words in the house resonate right across our society and we all need to remember that.”
Brianna’s mother had been in Westminster during PMQs with her local MP, Charlotte Nichols, as she campaigned for mindfulness lessons to be taught in schools after her daughter’s murder.
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