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PM clashes with Sir Keir on trans issues in PMQ spat

LABOUR slammed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for “deeply offensive” remarks mocking Keir Starmer on trans issues while the mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey was in the gallery.

Reeling off a list of issues on which Sir Keir has shifted position, Mr Sunak included “defining a woman, although in fairness that was only 99 per cent of a U-turn,” understood to be a reference to the Labour leader’s previous statement that 99.9 per cent of women do not have a penis.

Sir Keir immediately denounced him, saying: “Of all the weeks to say that; when Brianna’s mother is in the chamber. Shame.

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