Phillipson rejects claim she's delaying trans guidance to not risk deputy PM votes

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GallantKumquat · 20/10/2025 17:05

Phillipson rebuffed the suggestion, saying the watchdog has only submitted missing documents – including an equality impact assessment, which supplements its code of practice – within the last week. The late additions are on top of the original documents sent to ministers in September stretching to over 300 pages.
“It is disappointing to see the EHRC commenting on this in the way that they are publicly, because we are going to get this right. We will make sure that the Code of Practice gets us into the right place, but the EHRC also need to give us the material in a timely way,” Phillipson told The i Paper.

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Phillipson rejects claim she's delaying trans guidance to not risk deputy PM votes

Phillipson rebuffed the human rights commission after it said the minister must speed up publishing guidance on single sex spaces following a High Court ruling this year

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Llamasarellovely · 26/12/2025 13:05

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 25/12/2025 20:40

This "laying before Parliament" looks like a mechanism for lazy consensus decision-making. So if what is laid before Parliament sucks, we need to get a motion passed against it. Last time there was a successful motion against something laid before Parliament was 1979.

You can submit a type of Early Day Motion (known as a ‘prayer’) to annul a negative statutory instrument. A prayer submitted by the official Opposition is likely to be debated, but there’s no guarantee of this. A prayer submitted by a backbencher is unlikely to be debated unless a large number of other MPs have also signed it. Prayers can be considered on Opposition days.

So we's be relying on Kemi to do the right thing and on getting MPs to support her.

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Oh I have no doubt she'd do the right thing, she's been utterly consistent on this. Getting the support though...

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 26/12/2025 17:56

SerendipityJane · 26/12/2025 11:38

If you want really egregious examples of governments abusing parliamentary procedures, then this government is pure as the driven snow compared to Theresa May and Boris Johnsons governments. Who tried to ram loads of measures through without parliament until those pesky courts put them back on the straight and narrow.

By all means, be down on this administration. But don't think they are in anyway not representative of how all governments work. They really are all the same.

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The What-about-the -Tories is a poor defence at the best of times, there is nothing you can compare this government to that would make them look 'pure as driven snow'.

They are abysmal, the Tories may have had their 'little Englanders' but this lot are all rotten to the core, they are motivated by an ideology that is morally bankrupt, which has been proven to fail over and over again. The reality denying and science rejecting batshittery can only destroy us as a functioning society and a safe country for our children to live in.

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