Mr Sunak has faced numerous calls to apologise for the comments he made at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday - but so far he and ministers have refused to do so.
Rishi Sunak has declined to apologise for his joke about transgender people, despite Brianna Ghey's father calling for him to say sorry. The prime minister was criticised for aiming the political dig about transgender people at Sir Keir Starmer, saying the Labour leader had broken promises on 'defining a woman' while Brianna's mother, Esther Ghey, was in parliament.
'But to use that tragedy to detract from the very separate and clear point I was making about Keir Starmer's proven track record of multiple U-turns on major policies, because he doesn't have a plan, I think is both sad and wrong, and it demonstrates the worst of politics.
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