Brianna Ghey’s father demands apology from Sunak over transgender remark

Sunak at prime minister’s questions. He made a jibe about Labour’s policy on trans rights and ‘defining a woman’ shortly after being told Brianna Ghey’s mother was in the Commons. Photograph: UK parliament/Maria Unger/Reuters

The father of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey has demanded Rishi Sunak apologise after the prime minister made a jibe at the expense of transgender people just after being told Brianna’s mother was watching him in the House of Commons.

After the exchanges, at prime minister’s questions, Brianna’s father, Peter Spooner, called Sunak’s comments “absolutely dehumanising”.