UK general election LIVE: Rishi Sunak pledges to rewrite laws on sex and gender while Keir Starmer goes on the defence with promise to keep nuclear weapons – everything you need to know from the campaign trail
Rishi Sunak will today promise to rewrite equality laws to define sex as biological if so Conservatives win next month’s general election.
Meanwhile, sir Keir Starmer will call Labor the ‘party of national security’ when he later visits veterans in the North West as he focuses on defence.
Elsewhere the Liberal Democrats, SNPReform UK, the Greens and Plaid Cymru will be on the election trail as the campaign enters its second full week.
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The Mail’s chief political correspondent David Churchill reports that Rishi Sunak has promised to rewrite equality laws to define sex as biological if he wins the election.
This groundbreaking change would help protect biological female spaces for girls and women by preventing the conflating of sex with gender identity, the Prime Minister said.
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