Badenoch accuses Starmer of ‘not having any balls’ over Supreme Court ruling

Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir Starmer of “not having any balls” regarding his reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman.

Last week five judges ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex, in a decision that could have wide-ranging ramifications for trans women’s rights to use services and spaces reserved for women.

Asked if the PM still believed that a transgender woman was a woman, his official spokesman said: “No, the Supreme Court judgment has made clear that when looking at the Equality Act, a woman is a biological woman. That is set out clearly by the court judgment.”

The Conservative leader labelled the prime minister a “weather vane who twists in the wind” on Wednesday (23 April) following Sir Keir’s U-turn on his views.