JK Rowling calls for Sir Keir Starmer to apologise after Supreme Court ruling on women

PMQs live: Badenoch challenges Starmer over past position on definition of woman

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch are facing each other for the first time in three weeks.

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 steps up attack on Labour over transgender row

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch accused Labour’s equalities minister Bridget Phillipson of lying about protecting women-only spaces.

JK Rowling is furious with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The outburst comes after Starmer's reversal on the transgender issue. "Have these politicians no shame?" she writes on X.

JK Rowling calls for Sir Keir Starmer to apologise after Supreme Court ruling on women

JK Rowling - who has been outspoken against transgender women using single-sex spaces - was among several gender critical campaigners who celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of a woman.

The reaction to the Supreme Court ruling has been unedifying from both sides

When the ruling was announced, I felt two things in tandem: relief that common sense had prevailed and genuine sympathy for trans people