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Sophie Wingate

Gove says Sunak was right to attack Labour U-turns after trans jibe criticism

Michael Gove has defended Rishi Sunak’s controversial transgender jibe, saying the Prime Minister was “absolutely right” to use it to attack Sir Keir Starmer’s U-turns.

Mr Sunak faced a backlash after he accused the Labour leader in the Commons of being incapable of “defining a woman” while Esther Ghey, the mother of murdered transgender teenager Brianna Ghey, was visiting Parliament.

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