Keir Starmer says he would treat trans people with ‘dignity and respect

Keir Starmer said he would treat trans people with ‘dignity and respect’ during his final head-to-head debate with Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, as the pair clashed over whether the Labour leader would protect women’s rights to single-sex spaces. Starmer said he would protect women's spaces but criticised the prime minister, raising an incident in parliament in which Sunak made an anti-trans joke while the mother of Brianna Ghey, a teenager murdered partly because of her trans identity, sat in the gallery watching