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The Prime Minister mentioned it’s “time now to lower the temperature” of the transgender debate, as Conservative Party chief Kemi Badenoch additional pressed him on his earlier feedback about transgender girls.

Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Mrs Badenoch mentioned: “Does the Prime Minister now accept that when he said that it was the law that trans women were women, he was wrong?”

Sir Keir Starmer replied: “Let me be clear, I welcome the Supreme Court ruling on this issue. It brings clarity and it will give confidence to women and, of course, to service providers.

“The Equality and Human Rights Commission will now issue updated guidance, and it is important that that happens and that all service providers then act accordingly.

“This Government’s approach, and my approach, has been as follows: to support and implement the Supreme Court ruling, and we will, to continue to protect single-sex spaces based on biological sex, and we will, but also to ensure that trans people are treated with respect, and we will, and to ensure that everybody is given dignity in their everyday lives.

“I do think this is the time now to lower the temperature, to move forward, and to conduct this debate with the care and compassion that it deserves. And I think that should unite the whole House.”