Kemi Badenoch claims Stonewall has been taken over by ‘leftist’ ideas

Kemi Badenoch said ‘we allowed other people to tell government what to do about’ gender ideology. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Shutterstock

Kemi Badenoch has launched an attack on the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, describing it as an example of an organisation taken over by “leftist” ideas.

Speaking on stage at an international gathering of conservatives, the business secretary and minister for women and equalities, agreed with the suggestion that the “more extreme ideas” about the rights of trans people had been defeated.