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26 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Marr: Is it transphobic to say only women have a cervix? Keir Starmer: “It is something that shouldn’t be said, it is not right.”
Starmer: “We do everybody a disservice when we reduce a really important issue to these exchanges… the trans community are the most marginalised and abused of many communities and we need to make progress on the Gender Recognition Act."
Here are Starmer's full quotes in context on the questions about trans rights and Rosie Duffield
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25 Sep
At a fringe Starmer brandishes the employment rights green paper that Angela Rayner unveiled today: “I don’t want this to be a green paper or a red document - I want it to be the law”. Biggest cheer when he says he doesn’t want it gathering dust - he wants to be in government.
Starmer says he doesn’t want to “come back year after year after year” and talk about what we “might do” - he wants to come back and say what he will do as Prime Minister.
Starmer mobbed. He got a very enthusiastic reception (despite all the drama today)
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25 Sep
NEW: Labour NEC has backed rule changes after electoral college was dumped. Vote on conference floor tomorrow.

- Leadership nominees will need 20% of PLP
- Number of grassroots etc conference motions cut from 10+10 to 6+6
- Registered supporters scrapped in leadership elections
Needing 20% of PLP to get on leadership ballot will make it harder for left candidates like Corbyn was to get on. Currently 15%. But 25% was proposed so this appears to be a compromise mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Statement from Keir Starmer: “I’m very pleased these party reforms have got the backing of our NEC. These proposals put us in a better position to win the next general election and I hope constituency and trade union delegates will support them when they come to conference floor”
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22 Jul
"We're going to come up with a list of exempt workers very soon," Kwasi Kwarteng tells Sky, less than 48 hours after No10 told us there would not be one unified "list" of critical workers.
Kwasi Kwarteng: "I don’t recognise the bare shelves you describe. Clearly in some places that is happening… I don’t think it’s universal across the country."
BREAKING List of industries exempt from Covid 'ping' isolation to be published today
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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21 Jul
Helen Whately just gave what we thought would be the NHS pay statement and announced nothing on NHS pay
Something odd going on here. Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan says she got the statement at the very very last moment in "contempt" for the house.

"less than an hour ago there were competing briefings on what the deal was going to be but it turned out to be nothing"
Rosena Allin-Khan: “By refusing to offer a pay rise the government risks workers leaving the health service, creating more vacancies, shortfalls during shifts and increased workload for staff who remain”
Read 12 tweets
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7 Jul
Boris Johnson defending the £20-a-week Universal Credit cut at the Liaison Committee just now: “The answer is to get people into work”.

Sigh… louder for those at the back… 37% OF PEOPLE ON UNIVERSAL CREDIT ARE ALREADY IN A JOB
PM says "If you asked my to make a choice between more welfare or better higher-paid jobs, I’ll go for better higher-paid jobs." I mean... does it have to be a choice... ?
Boris Johnson all but confirms there is no way back for the Universal Credit cut.

Asked if he'll review it, he says: "Of course we keep everything under constant review but I’ve given you a pretty clear steer of what my instincts are."
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7 Jul
SNP's Ian Blackford on voter ID crackdown: "This is a British PM seeking to make it harder to vote, because it’s easier to get re-elected if the government can choose the voters, rather than letting the voters choosing the government.”
Shouts of protest from Tory benches as Blackford continues: "Will the PM withdraw these vote rigging proposals immediately, or he will continue down the path of being a tinpot dictator."
Interesting choice of words by PM which doesn't contest the fact that in-person voter fraud allegations are practically non-existent:

“I do think it reasonable to protect the public in our elections from the *idea* of voter fraud. Nobody wants to see it...
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