Labour dithers on trans rights
In the midst of the Tory leadership candidates baiting each other to move even further rightwards on trans rights, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an interview to the Times in which she appeared to move away from support for transgendered people’s rights too. There is a lot else to criticise in the interview, which may be worth returning to, but most of it basically affirms that Reeves is not at all left-wing – which we knew. In contrast she has previously made relatively good comments defending trans rights, at least recently as September 2021 . As often with these kinds of interviews...