@GeofCox I share @benofbrown's caution.
#BridgetPhillipson's track record on #trans rights is atrocious. If #Phillipson wanted to support trans people, the simple remedy would be to pass a one-sentence amendment to the #EA2010 making a GRC define sex in the EA as it does elsewhere. The #UKSC ruling in #FWS would be redundant.
This intervention marks a useful but small retreat from the #EHRC's extremist #transExclusion agenda. Phillipson just wants to crap on us less crudely.
Interesting that #Phillipson appears to rebuke #EHRC as rabid outgoing chair #Falkner urges government to go faster in further undermining #trans rights.
Yesterday, #UK Equalities Minister #BridgetPhillipson issued a sharp public rebuke to #EHRC chair #KrisherFalkner's aggression. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/04/bridget-phillipson-public-debate-ehrc-gender-recognition
It seems that govt-EHRC relations have almost broken down. I don't want to read too much into this. I believe that the #Starmer crew still intends to sacrifice #trans people to the rightwing lynch mobs.
But there is now some small hope that #Phillipson may draw back slightly from the most exteremist #TERF demands. But this may just be optics 🤔
<Breathes a small sigh of relief> that #LucyPowell not #TERF #Phillipson was chosen by #Labour members... Makes me hope that #transphobic #Starmer might be coming to the end of his leadership.
Let's hope Powell sticks to her word to demand a parliamentary debate on single sex spaces...
...but maybe I'm too hopeful?
I can see #Starmer throwing #Phillipson and #Falkner under the bus and trying to walk it back a little, claiming he was nisinformed. It might be the least embarassing move. But then again he does have the political instincts of a wombat.
Ministers vow crackdown on rip-off nursery fees | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nursery-free-childcare-fees-parenting-b2630393.html
#Labour
#Morgan
#Phillipson
#Funding
#NurseryFees
#FreeNurseryHours
#Nurseries
#Childcare
BBC News: Who's in Keir Starmer's new cabinet? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0veg88g7jyo
#Starmer
#Cabinet
#Rayner
#Reeves
#Lammy
#Cooper
#McFadden
#Mahmood
#Healey
#Streeting
#Phillipson
#Miliband
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#Reynolds
#Kyle
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Childcare places ‘fall by 1,000’ as Labour accuses ministers of ‘botched’ expansion | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-childcare-nursery-places-expansion-b2521315.html
#Childcare
#Tories
#Labour
#ChildcareCrisis
#Ofsted
#Phillipson
#Hunt
#Keegan
#EarlyYearsAlliance
England’s secondary schools are Dickensian. No wonder children are staying away | Simon Jenkins | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/08/englands-secondary-schools-are-dickensian-no-wonder-children-are-staying-away
#Schools
#SecondarySchools
#Truancy
#PersistentAbsenteeism
#Keegan
#Phillipson
Raac: Number of schools and colleges with crumbling concrete rises by 25 per cent | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/raac-concrete-found-schools-colleges-b2432535.html
#RAAC
#Schools
#SchoolSafety
#SchoolBuildings
#Keegan
#NAHT
#NationalEducationUnion
#Phillipson
#NEU
#Wilson
Labour partial U-turn on private schools’ tax breaks clampdown | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-private-school-fees-tax-status-b2419785.html
#Labour
#LabourUTurns
#PrivateSchool
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#Tax
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#TaxBreaks
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#IndependentSchoolsCouncil
#Phillipson
Dozens of school buildings 'at risk of collapse' and may need evacuating at short notice, DfE warns schools | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dozens-school-buildings-risk-collapse-and-may-need-evacuating-short-notice-dfe-warns-schools
#DFE
#SchoolSafety
#SchoolBuildings
#ReinforcedAutoclavedAeratedConcret
#RAAC
#NEU
#Phillipson
#Keegan
#Ridge to #Phillipson "Would you accept the 6.5% pay rise for teachers?"
She replies "We would see that as the starting point for negotiation."
What's the difference between this and the Tory position?
The End, by British artist Heather Phillipson - #Fourth #Plinth #Trafalgar #Square
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