Good: Badenoch, a strong critical gender voice, asked the PM if he was “wrong” to say previously that trans women were entitled. Starmer dodged the point and repeated his welcome from the judgment to provide clarity and confidence to women. The PM called on both sides to “lower the temperature” by supporting unique sexual spaces while treating trans people with respect.
Big chances: It’s PMQS, so it was obviously not going to hold. Badenoch asked if the PM would apologize to the member for Canterbury, Rosie Duffield, who resigned from the work whip last year because of the perceived perceived task of the party on sex. The conservative chief said that Duffield had been “hunted up” from work “just for having told the truth”. The PM, of course, rejected this charge and called on the conservatives to stop playing “political football”.
And yet: He remained political. Badenoch accused Starmer of being missing in action taking six days to respond to the decision. “Isn’t it because he was afraid?” She cried. The Prime Minister’s researchers clearly did their homework on Easter, while Starmer has castigated the Badenoch file as Minister of Equalities. “She did not do anything precisely,” he said, calling him “a spectator, not a leader.”
See red: This accusation left Badenoch apoplectic as she defended her own record on unique sexual spaces and puberty blockers. “How can we take this government seriously?” She said, highlighting many Labor deputies who criticized the Supreme Court’s decision despite the government’s line. Political football continued tirelessly while Starmer dodged the point and raised the secretary of ghost justice (and the former competitor of conservative leaders) Robert Jenrick comments from the reform of “this coalition” of the reform of the Tories and Nigel Farage.
Writing herself: “The man that most of his party wants to replace it admitted that the reform and the conservatives work together,” said Starmer. “They are not conservatives, they are an idiot.” The shot continued from Badenoch. “Who plays political football now?” She asked, after the absence of Jenrick from the House of Commons was noted. “He should be more worried about his back-ban deputies than my foreheads.”
Polish apart: There was little meeting with the spirits between the pair, even if the two supported the decision. Badenoch, in a rather eyebrow language, said that Starmer “did not have the bullets” to make difficult decisions. “I can only assume that it sounded better when she did it in the mirror earlier,” thought the PM while he, once again, dodged the specific point.
Useful intervention of the back-ban of the week: The deputy for Peterborough of Labor, Andrew Pakes, questioned Starmer on the Net Zero transition and how the government stimulated learning. What do you know? The PM has connected all its energy and training plans and highlighted the investment in Great Britain.
Totally non -scientific scores on the doors: Badench 7/10. Starmer 6/10. No one was well served by this exchange, which inevitably substituted the nuances and the complexity for the scoring of the points of the parties. The PM skillfully jumped on Jenrick and reported Badenoch’s mandate as Minister of Equalities. But the conservative chief actually raised the changing position of Starmer on the issue. This, combined with the apparent unit of his benches (at least on this subject) compared to the divisions behind Starmer, helped her win a victory.
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