UK general election LIVE: Rishi Sunak pledges to rewrite sex and gender laws as Keir Starmer comes to the defense by vowing to keep nuclear weapons – everything you need to know from the election campaign
Rishi Sunak today pledges to rewrite equality laws to define sex as biological if the Conservatives win next month’s general election.
Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer will present Labor as the ‘party of national security’ when he visits veterans in the North West later as he focuses on defence.
Elsewhere, the Liberal Democrats, SNP, Reform UK, Greens and Plaid Cymru will be on the campaign trail as the campaign enters its second full week.
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The Mail’s chief political correspondent David Churchill reports that Rishi Sunak has pledged to rewrite equality laws to define sex as biological if he wins the election.
This historic change would help protect girls’ and women’s spaces for biological women by preventing sex from being confused with gender identity, the Prime Minister said.
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