Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said the prime minister was using equality “as a ‘wedge issue’ in an ugly culture war”.
Mr Streeting said: “We have a government, and a prime minister, who see an opportunity to use LGBT+ equality as a ‘wedge issue’ in an ugly culture war. Meanwhile, hate crimes against LGBT+ people are on the rise once again.
“The issues affecting young LGBT+ people today, and trans people in particular, are more complicated than when I was coming out.
“They demand leadership that handles them with care and sensitivity, rather than as a punchline or a way to score cheap headlines.”
Mr Streeting also warned that a hard-won consensus on LGBT+ equality “looks fragile at best”.
A spokesperson for the campaign group Conservatives for Women accused Mr Streeting of being “disingenuous”.
They said: “Women’s rights and child safeguarding are not part of an ‘ugly culture war’ and it is disingenuous to frame this issue that way. The prime minister has been very clear that he is fully supportive of maintaining women’s rights to single-sex services, spaces and sports, and we are grateful he can define the word ‘woman’ – something many of his opponents struggle with.”
Independent article reprinted in full by yahoo https://uk.news.yahoo.com/furious-row-rishi-sunak-accused-182202105.html Paragraphs above are ones I selected.
Interesting that someone in Labour is admitting that the Tories challenging the trans narrative is a vote winner. Does that mean Labour recognises that supporting women's rights is a vote winner?! And they would rather lose than support women's rights ... ?