Kemi Badenoch SHUTS DOWN Chris Bryant Over Gender Debate

While Badenoch demonstrated both political bravery and an iron grip on her brief, the same could not be said of her detractors across the chamber. Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant solemnly declared that her words had made him – a fully grown man – feel ‘less safe’. She hit back with force, challenging him to identify which words precisely were so problematic. She later criticised the attempts of trans activists to use emotional blackmail to try to shut down debate.

Bryant’s colleague, Sir Ben Bradshaw, also failed to get the better of Badenoch. He complained the UK had recently fallen in a set of international rankings on LGBT rights. She calmly pointed out that those rankings reward states that adopt the Stonewall-supported policy of self-ID and punish those who do not. To cheers from the Tory benches, she declared ‘Stonewall does not decide the law in this country’.

A lot changed yesterday. An area of politics that is too often dismissed as ‘toxic’, where many fear to tread, was dragged into the sunlight of open debate – something that trans activists have always feared. Gender ideology now stands exposed for what it is – as a threat to the rights of women and of gay people.

‘No debate’ was born in 2015. It died in December 2023. Its last rites were administered by Kemi Badenoch.