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🗓️ 24 April 2025
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Kemi Badenoch accuses the Prime Minister of lacking moral courage
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.2 | The Conservative leader, Kemi Badnock, accused the Prime Minister of lacking moral courage on Wednesday, the 23rd of April, |
0:17.2 | during exchanges about the Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman. |
0:22.7 | Kemi Biednock likes to arrive early for Prime Minister's questions. |
0:26.4 | She took her seat to Conservative cheers as MPs were taking part in their regular Q&A with the Scottish Secretary. |
0:33.5 | Scotland produces world-class potatoes. |
0:37.0 | The Prime Minister didn't join his colleagues on the government front bench until just before noon. |
0:42.0 | But like other MPs, he'd already been given a preview of the Conservative leader's line of questioning. |
0:48.4 | The night before, she'd been at the dispatch box, responding to a statement about last week's Supreme Court judgment |
0:55.5 | rather than leaving the job to her shadow equalities minister. |
0:59.8 | We now come to the leader of the opposition, can be better not? |
1:02.5 | Yes! |
1:04.0 | And she went on to focus all of her questions on the ruling that a woman is defined in law |
1:09.7 | by biological sex. |
1:11.6 | Does the Prime Minister now accept that when he said that it was the law that trans women were women, he was wrong? |
1:19.1 | Rather than dwell on his previous position, Sakeer Stama welcomed the judgment, |
1:23.9 | which he said brought clarity and gave confidence to women and service providers. |
1:28.7 | I do think this is the time now to lower the temperature, to move forward and to conduct this |
1:36.7 | debate with the care and compassion that it deserves. |
1:40.8 | Kemi Bade not complained that the Prime Minister couldn't bring himself to admit he was wrong. |
1:45.5 | Will he now apologise to the member for Canterbury, the very brave member for Canterbury, |
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