Starmer finally U-turns on trans – but won’t say sorry to female MP attacked by bullies

SIR Keir Starmer was today blasted for refusing to apologise to Rosie Duffield after finally admitting she's right about what defines a woman.

In another spectacular U-turn, the Labour chief conceded that only women can have cervix.

But he didn't say sorry for failing to stand by Ms Duffield as she was hounded by trans extremists for making the same statement.

He'd even previously called the assertion "something that shouldn't be said" because "it's not right".

On Good Morning Britain Sir Keir insisted he and Ms Duffield "get on very well" and "discuss a number of issues".

But the Canterbury MP hit back to suggest the opposition chief hasn't reached out to her.

She questioned whether he was confusing "telepathy" for a real life conversation and apology.

Sir Keir said: "Rosie Duffield and I get on very well, we discuss a number of issues.

"She's a much-respected member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and I want to have a discussion with her and anybody else about how we go forward in a positive way."

He admitted: "There's a distinction between sex and gender.

"The Labour Party has championed women's rights for a very long time."

Senior MPs slammed the opposition chief for trying to sweep his record on trans issues "under the carpet".

Equalities Minister and Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch said: "Keir Starmer flounders on this question because the Labour Party is trying to hold a line it does not believe.

"Denying objective reality does not provide dignity.

"Single-sex spaces are sacrosanct."

Former minister Rachel Maclean added: "Sir Keir Starmer's latest apparent U-turn is nothing more than an attempt to sweep their record under the rug.

"The reality is Keir Starmer, and his top team, isolated, ostracised, and even outwardly attacked Rosie Duffield for standing up to their madness.

"If Sir Keir actually knew what a woman was, he would immediately be apologising to Rosie, and the many others the Labour Party demonised in their woke crusade."

Speaking at a prestigious editors' conference, Rishi Sunak hit out at “the shutting down people’s views” adding that is "not what this country stands for”.

Amid rows over trans and Jews living in fear of protests, he told the Society of Editors "we cannot allow one group of people to say their experiences are more important than others."

"Making people fearful of speaking out, that is not who we are," he said.

"That is not what this country stands for. Democracy depends on the ability to air our views to challenge and interrogate people’s standpoints. And to learn from different perspectives and experiences.

“I stand by that declaration of George Orwell’s, carved into the wall outside the BBC: ‘If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’."