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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Tuesday the 22nd of April,

when the Equality's Minister welcomed the Supreme Court judgment that said the definition of a woman should be based on biological sex.

This ruling brings welcome clarity and confidence for women and service providers.

Single sex spaces must be protected.

The Conservative leader says it's a government U-turn.

I know what a woman is and I always have. The people of this country know what a woman is and I always have.

The people of this country know what a woman is.

And as ministers missed their own deadline to bring in a new Hillsborough law, they're challenged.

To say why a promise made as a manifesto commitment is now a promise which has not been kept.

Parliament was on its Easter break when the Supreme Court ruled that a woman is defined in law by biological sex.

The UK's highest court delivered the judgment after the Scottish Government was challenged by women's rights campaigners.

When MPs returned to Westminster, the Education Secretary Bridget

Philipson, who's also the Women and Equality's Minister, told the Commons the ruling had brought

welcome, clarity and confidence for women, and she condemned harassment and threats.

Such acts seek to drag down the debate, away from common sense, away from the sensible view

held by the majority of the British public, that women need single-sex spaces, that those spaces

should be protected, and that you can protect those spaces while treating trans people with

respect as well. So the certainty that this judgment brings is welcome.

And now, Madam Deputy Speaker, it is time to move forward. The Conservative leader,

Kemi Bay-Dinok, who was Women and Equality's Minister in the last government, said she'd always known

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