Rishi Sunak has been speaking to local radio, and he was asked about his refusal to apologise for his transgender jibe at Sir Keir Starmer while the mother of murder transgender girl Brianna Ghey was in parliament.
Brianna’s father, Peter Spooner, told Sky News on Wednesday that the PM should apologise for his “degrading” and “dehumanising” comment.
Speaking to BBC Radio Somerset a short while ago, Mr Sunak rejected any suggestion that he made a joke about transgender people.
Sounding rather annoyed, the PM said: “That is not what I did, it is wrong to say that.
“What happened was a tragedy, and using that to try and detract from the completely separate and very clear point I was making about Keir Starmer and his proven track record of U-turning on multiple policy issues because he doesn’t have a plan is, as I said, both sad and wrong and the worst of politics.”
He pivoted to Labour, saying Labour’s decision to scrap its £28bn green spending pledge as “yet another U-turn”.
Asked repeatedly if he will apologise to Brianna’s father, the PM declines to do so.
“To drag someone’s family in the face of a tragedy into politics like this, I don’t think is right. I think it’s sad and it’s wrong,” he concluded.
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