Prime minister says meeting pay demands of unions ‘wouldn’t be fair and wouldn’t be right’
Here is my colleague Harriet Sherwood’s full repot on Justin Welby’s speech to the House of Lords criticising the government’s asylum policy.
Kemi Badenoch, the equalities minister at Westminter, has told the Scottish government that she is “concerned” about the UK-wide impact of its gender recognition reform bill.
Individuals contemplating the very serious step of changing their legal sex need clarity on the process that they must undertake and I am concerned about the impact [of] having divergent regimes in the different parts of the UK.
As the UN special rapporteur has set out, the Scottish government’s proposals currently raise a number of clear concerns.
In order to understand the potential impact of the Bill on the rights of people across the United Kingdom, we will continue to monitor its progress. We have made no decision on any potential action at this time.
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