Starmer issues call to ‘lower temperature’ on Supreme Court ruling debate

Sir Keir Starmer has made a call to "lower the temperature" on debates over the Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of a woman.

It comes after the prime minister's spokesperson, when asked if Sir Keir still believed that a transgender woman was a woman, 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.”

Responding to Kemi Badenoch, who questioned the prime minister on his U-turn on his previous statement that trans women are women, the Labour leader responded: "This is the time now to lower the temperature, to move forward and to conduct this debate with the care and compassion that it deserves.”