Labour leader tells LBC issue is being used as a political football after Scottish Tory MSP urges PM not to block bill
On the Today programme this morning Shami Chakrabarti, who was shadow attorney general when Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader, said that, while she was “sympathetic” to the aims of Scotland’s gender recognition bill, the UK government was entitled to argue that it had UK-wide implications. She said:
Whilst I am sympathetic to the change that is made to make the rights of trans people in Scotland, I think we may have a clash between the position in the UK-wide legislation and the position in Scotland …
[The legislation] may mean – even though I suspect political mischief on the part of the Conservative Government and culture wars – they may have a point. It is arguable at least that what’s happened in Scotland has a potential impact on the legislation as it operates UK-wide.
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