Karin Smyth, health and social care minister

A Labour minister claimed the Conservatives need to apologise for allowing questions around gender to “run and run and run” while they were in government.

The Supreme Court decided on Wednesday that a woman is defined by biology not gender, sparking jubiliation among sex-critical campaigners and significant fear within the trans community.

The government said the ruling “brings clarity and confidence” while the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called the ruling a “victory”.

She said: “The era of Keir Starmer telling us women can have penises has come to an end.”

Health and social care minister Karin Smyth then........

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