Weak Starmer’s week of silence on women ruling

Planet Normal

Theodora Louloudis

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week your co-pilots bring you a podcast exclusive with the Leader of The Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, who gives her take on Prime Minister, Keir Starmer’s, vote of support for last week’s Supreme Court verdict.

Both co-pilots are troubled by the PM’s statement, with co-pilot Pearson adamant he should apologise to the women of Britain.

Co-pilot Halligan also turns his eyes to the upcoming Local Elections on May 1st. Could Reform UK sneak past Labour and the Conservatives for surprise gains?

And there’s no shortage of tax and tariff talk as the economic woes rumble on.

Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |

Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |

Read Allison: ‘If Starmer had any shame he would have resigned after Supreme Court ruling’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/22/starmer-championed-dangerous-fantasy-men-called-women/ |

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0:00.0	Those dark nights and dimlit days are so yesterday.
0:04.5	Goodbye to the dreary commute, where it's coat on, coat off, coat on, coat off.
0:09.3	It's cheers to those longer days and lighter nights.
0:12.4	Let's enjoy that first sip of a cold beer in the fresh air, standing, chatting, where time stands still.
0:18.3	Even if you do have to go to work tomorrow, they're still tonight.
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0:34.5	This isn't some minor administrative error that needed clarification.
0:42.2	Let's be frank here.
0:43.7	This was blatant lying.
0:46.2	Do I think free speech in this country is disappearing?
0:49.0	I don't think it is disappearing, but I do think it is under threat.
0:52.9	As we speak, Kis Dahmer's popularity rating minus 103.
0:58.8	Two.
1:00.1	I think all eyes are going to be on reform.
1:04.3	One.
1:07.7	We have left off.
1:11.3	Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson.
1:15.5	Hello.
1:16.5	And me, Liam Halligan. Well, it took him almost a week. But Kirstarmer now says that he
1:22.5	welcomes the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex defining a woman under
1:26.6	equality's law.
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