Davey attacks Johnson for stirring up division on Trans Rights Issues

The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey has reaffirmed his view that there should not be spaces where biological males cannot go.

Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Davey accused the Prime Minister of trying to stir up divisions up on this issue and on race.

He added, “I think the trans rights issue is an issue that all parties are grappling with. What I think we need to do to debate issues like this is take some of the conflict and division out of this”.

Ahead of the start of the Liberal Democrat conference today, Davey stated that the party would “make a pitch for the voters who were let down as parents, let down as carers, and small business people”.

He defended accusations that the party was facing both ways, particularly in relation to some of its campaigning stances in the recent Chesham and Amersham by-election. In particular, Davey reaffirmed the Liberal Democrat’s support for the HS2 fast rail project despite the party locally campaigning against the project in the by-election in Buckinghamshire.

Davey put the party’s local campaign on the issue down to the fact that the party’s local candidate in Chesham and Amersham was an ‘independent person’.