Keir Starmer says trans issues ‘are marginal’

Very few voters are talking about trans issues, Sir Keir Starmer said, querying why the subject had become a focus of political debate.

The Labour leader sought to win over gender-critical campaigners and MPs, telling The Sunday Times there would be “no rolling back” of women’s rights if the party formed a government.

He repeated his position on LBC yesterday, saying that “for the vast majority, let’s say 99.9 per cent, biology matters” in defining a woman. He said Labour was trying to agree a “commonsense, respectable and tolerant position”, but that the party was “not prepared to ignore” the small number of people who identified as a different sex from the one they were born as.

He insisted it was a marginal issue

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