Sunak meets Sturgeon as PM prepares to rule on gender-change law
Daily Express|January 13, 2023
RISHI Sunak met Nicola Sturgeon last night amid growing tensions over Scottish plans to allow people to change gender more easily.
Sam Lister
Sunak meets Sturgeon as PM prepares to rule on gender-change law

The Prime Minister will decide within days whether to use Westminster powers to block the First Minister’s controversial bill.

Mr Sunak and Ms Sturgeon last night held an “informal and private” working dinner on his first visit to Scotland since entering No 10.

Downing Street said the PM will decide next week whether to stop the SNPs gender reforms passed in Holyrood from receiving Royal assent.

His spokesman added: “There is a process to consider it and then he will be given advice to make a decision, that’s still taking place.”

Holyrood voted to end the need for adults to have a medical diagnosis before being able to legally change gender, a move critics say could be abused by predatory men who want to gain access to women-only areas.

Tension

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