Labour MP Rosie Duffield accuses Keir Starmer of ignoring her after gender law ... trends now
A Labour MP today accused Sir Keir Starmer of ignoring her after she was jeered by party colleagues in the Commons for opposing a Scottish gender law.
Rosie Duffield said the party leader hasn't been in touch since she was abused during a debate yesterday for saying the Gender Recognition Reform Act would allow men identifying as women into domestic violence settings, changing rooms and prisons'.
Labour's split over gender rights deepened today with a former justice minister described Rishi Sunak planned veto of the Scottish law as 'a nuclear weapon used in a minor skirmish'.
Lord Falconer, who was Lord Chancellor under Tony Blair, said the Prime Minister's use of devolved powers to block it from receiving Royal Assent was not justified.
But Sir Keir continued to try to sit on the fence between the two wings of his party. He told the BBC at the weekend he would make a decision after seeing 'what they put on the table this week'.
He admitted to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he disagreed with parts of the Scottish law involving lowering the age at which people can legally change gender to 16.
But a spokesman for the Labour leader today said he wanted to see the government's legal advice - which it is not planning to publish - before making a decision.
Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield was jeered in the Commons as she backed the Government's decision to block the Scottish parliament's gender identification legislation
She said the party leader hasn't been in touch since she was the target of abuse
Lord Falconer, who was Lord Chancellor under Tony Blair, said the Prime Minister's use of devolved powers to stop Holyrood's Gender Recognition Reform Act from receiving Royal Assent was not justified.
Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has yet to publicly reveal where he stands on the legal move. On Sunday he said he disagreed with parts of the Scottish law involving lowering the age at which people can legally change gender to 16.
Ms Duffield was attacked after asking the Scottish secretary Alister Jack to 'recognise the strength of feeling amongst women, women's rights' groups and activists in Scotland, that this Bill seeks to allow anyone at all to legally self-identify as either sex and therefore enter all spaces, including those necessarily segregated by sex, such as domestic violence settings, changing rooms and prisons'.
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