yes. so, in summary, what is it? so, what happened was, last month, the scottish parliament, by a pretty big majority, passed this legislation and the legislation, this gender bill, seeks to remove administrative and medical barriers to changing the sex on your birth certificate. that s basically what it does. it s passed the scottish parliament and it was waiting to be given the rubber stamp by the king, royal assent. but, crucially, while the issue of trans rights is devolved to the scottish parliament, the issue of equalities is something that s decided at westminster on behalf of england, scotland and wales and the uk government says, hang on a minute, we think those two clash. and there s a line in the rule book that set up devolution a quarter of a century ago that allows us, they say, to pull this trigger and stop that proposed law becoming law and getting royal assent. that s what they ve done and it s caused one heck of a row. right, well, let s chat a bit more a
mainly conservative, don t really meet. mhairi, cheers for coming on. thank you for having me. so we got the perspective there of the snp. we are going to talk to labour in a bit. let s get the perspective of the conservatives next, because we can talk to the business secretary, grant shapps, who is in davos, in the snow in switzerland, at the world economic forum. hello, grant. hi there, hi. it looks very nice there, a bit cloudy but lovely mountains behind you. i suppose the question people looking at those lovely mountains might have, though, is why is that minister swanning around in the beautiful swiss alps when people here are, to be brutally honest, dying on hospital trolleys and freezing in their homes? i think the truth is, when the world gathers together and there are all those businesses and other ministers from around the world, what you get is the opportunity to discuss a lot of things which matter to us back home, none more so than bringing home investment to the uk. brin