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The Labour MP Rosie Duffield attended an unofficial event in Brighton last night and, according to the Times (paywall), she objected to suggestions she was a “dinosaur” because of her views on trans issues. She said:
It’s ridiculous and nothing about me is a dinosaur. I’m angry at colleagues chucking me on the railway tracks. I’m even more determined. I’m not a transphobe, I never have been and I never will be. I simply want to use the word women.
Political speeches are never delivered in a vacuum. How they are received is to a large extent shaped by what people already feel about the party, and the leader, and so here is a recap, with three charts from the latest polling from Ipsos MORI (pdf).
This shows what has happened to party support since the 2015 election.
