Two-tier Labour's two-faced U-turn

THOSE of us who cracked open the Champagne last week after the rare outbreak of common sense from the Supreme Court over the definition of a woman may find that our celebrations were premature. In the aftermath trans rights activists took to the streets and Labour MPs began plotting to overturn the ruling.

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Leaked WhatsApp messages involving senior Ministers Dame Angela Eagle and Sir Chris Bryant, and fellow Labour MPs Chris Murray and Steve Race revealed their anger with this decision. Dame Angela Eagle in her “private” WhatsApp message to her fellow Labour MPs referred to the ECHR guidance as being “catastrophic” and Labour MP for Exeter, Steve Race, said that Baroness Falkner's interview about the ruling was “pretty appalling”.

Indeed, they reserved their main bitterness for the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner, who had said that the Supreme Court ruling meant that trans women (ie, biological men) could not use single-sex female facilities or compete in women's sport.