the conservatives say they want to update equality laws to define sex as someone s biological sex. they say current confusion over definitions cannot be allowed to continue, and updating the law would make biological sex a protected characteristic. that means it would be easier to create protected spaces for women and girls. labour say they wouldn t amend the law, and accuse the conservatives of stoking a culture war. here s alex forsyth. flanked by young footballers, the prime minister claimed today he was tackling an issue to improve the safety of women and girls. the conservatives want to change the equality act so sex would mean biological sex. they say that would make it clearer that single sex spaces, from public toilets to refuges, can be for biological women and girls only, not those born male, even they have legally changed their sex on their birth certificate. the equalities minister claims this is necessary because there has been confusion and legal challenges over
throw into the mixjeremy corbyn, who was a sceptic about nuclear weapons, sceptic about nato, the defence alliance, and labour were trounced at the last general election. what keir starmer has been trying to do ever since he got the job is to reassure people that a labour government under his leadership could be trusted with national security. there is a kind of bigger strategy here, so what he s trying to do is acknowledge that if you can t be trusted, this is their view at a senior level in the labour party come if you can t be trusted on defence and the economy, you might as well pack your bags and go home because anything else you say, no one is going to pay attention because they are not going to elect you because they don t trust you on the economy. national security and the economy. that is what is the underlying foundational drive behind, as they hoped, nailing trust on defence, because they say they believe and because it underpins alongside the economy of hitting us. so what