Excl: First parliamentary report into birth trauma from Theo Clarke MP finds pregnant women and new mothers being failed by maternity services where good care is “the exception rather than the rule”.

thetimes.co.uk/article/birth-…

A short thread… 🧵

My appeal against Stonewall will be heard at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in London this week, 14 -15 May 2024.

Four and a half years ago, I was a barrister at Garden Court Chambers. It was 2019 and I had decided that I could not ignore what was happening to women and to…

I didn’t compare him to one. He IS one.

Mother Nature is a TERF................

EXCLUSIVE 🚨 w/caroline wheeler

Natalie Elphicke lobbied the justice secretary to intervene in criminal trial of her sex offender husband

Robert Buckland told her it was 'completely' improper

She allegedly then tried to secure him better prison conditions
thetimes.co.uk/article/natali…

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says Labour should be 'less tribal' and open to 'reasonably minded people'

[The Guardian]

💥NEW: FM John Swinney seems to confirm live on Sky News the gender recognition reform legislation will be abandoned after it was blocked from becoming law.

Former FM Humza Yousaf hinted he’d work with Labour govt to amend the law. Swinney doesn’t mention this.

My mind is slightly blown - Government have accepted my legal amendments to ban Registered Sex Offenders from changing their name to avoid detection. Huge congrats to all the victims & survivors esp. DellasLaw x Victims’ Commissioner London Victims' Commissioner for England & Wales

'Politicians are actually more nuanced... and they are allowed to change their minds.'

Former Labour Party adviser Tom Baldwin defends Natalie Elphicke's defection to Labour, but tells Shelagh Fogarty that 'she does need to show she has some Labour values'.

Loto figure privately dismissive of Labour MPs' reaction to the Natalie Elphicke defection

- It's the Labour parliamentary party 'talking about itself'
- MPs 'haven't worked out the leap they're going to have to make from opposition to government'

Coming up:

📢The actor and disability rights campaigner Liz Carr is fronting a new BBC documentary: Better off Dead?

It explores the controversial topic of the legalisation of assisted dying.

She tells Clare McDonnell why the possibility of changing the law terrifies her ⬇️