Rosie Duffield was “denied the opportunity” to scold Keir Starmer during a lively Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) session, broadcaster Carole Malone said on GB News.
Speaking on the People’s Channel, Malone lamented Speaker Lindsay Hoyle’s “shocking” decision not to grant the MP a question.
Duffield, formerly a Labour MP, quit the party last year after accusing Starmer of having a “problem with women”.
At Wednesday’s PMQs, Kemi Badenoch went on the offensive after last week’s Supreme Court judgment on biological sex.
Carole Malone hit out at the Speaker for not allowing Duffield to speak
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She called on Starmer to apologise to the MP for Canterbury, to which the PM said: “I always approach this on the basis that we should treat everyone with dignity and respect, whatever their different views, and I will continue to do so.”
He added: “When we lose sight of that approach and make it a political football, as happened in the past, we end up with the spectacle of a decent man – and he was a decent man – the previous prime minister, diminishing himself at this dispatch box by making trans jokes while the mother of a murdered trans teenager watched from the public gallery just up there.
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“That will never be my approach. My approach will be to support the ruling to protect single-sex spaces and treat everybody with dignity and respect, and I believe there's a consensus in this house and the country for that approach.”
Speaking on GB News, Malone praised Badenoch’s attacks while also hitting out at the Speaker for not granting Duffield a question.
“It was the first time I saw Badenoch skewer Keir Starmer at PMQs and she did it well”, she said.
“Starmer hasn’t apologised to Rosie Duffield, who was hounded out of her party with aggression.
Kemi Badenoch grilled Keir Starmer
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“She was sat at the back looking like she hated him to hell and back. She was also denied the opportunity to speak, which was shocking.
“The Speaker should have let her in because if anyone deserves a voice right now, it’s Rosie Duffield.”
The clash comes a day after Starmer made a significant U-turn on his previous position that "trans women are women" following last week's Supreme Court ruling.
The judgement states that the definition of a woman in equality law is based on biological sex, allowing trans women with gender recognition certificates to be excluded from single-sex spaces.
Keir Starmer was under fire at PMQs
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The PM has since confirmed the government will "protect single sex spaces based on biological sex".
The prime minister's position has drawn criticism from within his own party.
Jess Barnard, a member of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee, told The Independent that Sir Keir should be held "personally responsible" if trans women are assaulted in male bathrooms.
She warned the prime minister is either going to "put trans people in dangerous situations where they are vulnerable or force them out of society".
Transgender campaigner Jaxon Feeley has also raised concerns about the Supreme Court ruling's practical implications.
The campaigner, who transitioned from female to male while working as a prison officer, warned that single-sex spaces could become more dangerous rather than safer.
Feeley questioned how such spaces would be policed, noting the potential for misuse of the biological sex definition.
