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Labour councillor Bella Sankey, Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council, has responded to today’s (Wednesday, October 30) budget announcement. Councillor Sankey said: “We welcome today’s announcement and the additional investment in public services. “After more than a decade of underfunding, this cou
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Democrat Sarah McBride is expected to make history as the first openly trans person elected to US Congress. In 2016, McBride became the first openly transgender person to address a major US political convention and in 2020 became the first to serve in a US state Senate. “The fact that the candidacy
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Former Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt, who lost her seat in the 2024 general election, said that gender recognition, and trans rights, was ‘the most important issue of our times’, according to a new book by Boris Johnson. Johnson disclosed the details of the event in his memoirs Unleashed, stati
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Luton North MP Sarah Owen and Jarrow & Gateshead East MP Kate Osborne have stated that trans women are women as they seek election to lead the Women & Equalities Committee – one of the most influential groups in the House of Commons. In a tweet marking Transgender Awareness Week in November 2020, Ow
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Sian Berry, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, has responded to the news that the House of Commons has approved the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners in the UK. While MPs signed off the controversial measure by 348 to 228 this afternoon, around 50 Labour members ab
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The Green Party has suspended its health spokesperson, Pallavi Devulapalli, for calling reports of rising LGBTQ+ hate crimes “mischievous”. At a general election hustings in June, Ms Devulapalli said she had “yet to meet anyone” who denied a person’s right to “dress” and “be addressed as they please
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Sarah McBride, who is expected to become the first openly trans person elected to Congress in November, told LGBTQ+ delegates to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, August 21 that her candidacy marked a milestone for trans representation. McBride, a candidate for Delaware’s US House sea
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Anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who also goes by the name ‘Posie Parker’, is to lose her deposit after receiving just 0.5% of the vote. Keen-Minshill shifted her attention to Bristol Central for the General Election, after threatening to stand as an independent for the Brighton Kempt
Election Special
As the UK prepares to go to the polls on July 4, the nation’s two main parties – the Labour Party and the Conservatives – have released their manifestos, with LGBTQ+ issues and policies featuring in both. Key topics – such as gender-affirming care, conversion therapy and single-sex spaces – have bee
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The Labour Party has announced it would “commission a new HIV Action Plan in England, in pursuit of ending HIV cases by 2030” in their General Election manifesto. The announcement follows Tory commitments to ending new HIV cases by 2030 and justice for those impacted by the Infected Blood Scandal. H
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HIV/sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has welcomed today’s Conservative Party’s manifesto, which includes commitments to ending new HIV cases by 2030 and justice for those impacted by the Infected Blood Scandal. According to Terrence Higgins Trust, the UK is in a position to become the fi
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Anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who also goes by the name of ‘Posie Parker’, has shifted her attention to Bristol Central for the General Election on 4 July, after threatening to stand as an independent for the Brighton Kemptown seat. The controversial figure, whose stance on trans rig