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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy Yew and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Kate Andrews.

So the government in Westminster is set up for a battle with the government in Hollywood.

Katie, tell us about the constitutional and philosophical battle that is coming up this

week which has started last night.

So as we discussed previously on the podcast, what the government is mulling over was

making an order under section 35 of the Scotland Act to stop this gender reform legislation passing,

which was voted on by the Scottish Parliament, which makes gender self-id much easier and also

reduces the age. The government confirmed yesterday and as to Jack in the evening that he

would be doing this later today as Jack will speak in the House where he'll lay out exactly why

he thinks that what the S&P bill proposes clashes with the Equality Act, which is a grounds for

doing this. But I think what's quite interesting is there's lots of reason looking at this battles

because there's different aspects to it. So one is of course what this means in terms of constitutional

matters, the power of the Scottish Parliament and there's also of course the trans-issue element,

which is saying this is a cultural move from the government. In the statement as to Jack put out,

it's very much leaning into this is a constitutional issue, this does not work for the Equality Act,

with some changes and amendments in the Scottish Parliament, this could actually get

more of the sense if it is amended and resubmitted. And speaking to Scottish Tory MPs,

they are very keen to say they don't want this to play into the culture side of it and instead to

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