Even my four-year-old knows, ‘only boys can have a winky’, says Michelle Dewberry

Yesterday was a big day with the common sense ruling by the Supreme Court which finally provided legal clarity in answer to the simple question; what is a woman.

A simple question needs to be asked: Why on earth did the highest court in the land need to be invoked, at a significant cost to tax payers, to tell us what we already knew?

We know what a woman is.

But no - our cowedly politicians stuttered and stammered their way around this simple fact.

In this era of nonsense; campaign groups like Stonewall had a field day and groups popped up left right and centre to capitalise on this new cowardice, confusion and gaslighting. Intellectual dishonesty became rife and for years, women who dared to speak the truth were vilified, forced out of their jobs and banished from polite society.

The fact it took ordinary women, to take up and fight this common sense case at huge emotional and financial expense is astonishing. The fact it had to reach the highest court in the land, even more so.

I hope that politicians across the land woke up today with a sense of embarrassment. They failed in their duty and they metaphorically thew many of their own citizens under the bus.

Truth, honesty and integrity matters and if politicians are not willing or able to uphold those things then quite frankly, they have no business being in public life. And if any of them ever again struggle with the simple question of what is a woman; I can lend them my four-year-old, for even he knows: “only boys have a winky”.