Keir Starmer’s new Health Minister Ashley Dalton previously called for an end to women’s toilets and backed people identifying as llamas. The Mail has more.
Keir Starmer has promoted Ashley Dalton after sacking Andrew Gwynne from the key role over his posts in a vile WhatsApp group.
However, the PM immediately faced questions over Ms Dalton’s views, as it emerged she had defended people identifying as animals and argued for all bathrooms to be gender neutral.
During a discussion on Twitter in 2016 Ms Dalton – who was elected as MP for West Lancashire in 2023 – insisted: “Trans women aren’t male. They’re women.”
She also remarked: “Personally I think we shouldn’t have gendered bathrooms at all.”
Pressed on whether that applied to changing rooms, Ms Dalton said: “Loads of places already do this with cubicles for privacy.”
During another Twitter exchange in 2016 Ms Dalton was asked whether people should be taken seriously if they decided they were a llama.
She replied: “Yes. And treat you with dignity and respect.”
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Stop Press: In the Telegraph, William Atkinson says Dalton is Starmer’s “maddest appointment yet”. “A quick survey of Dalton’s record suggests she embodies the sort of Labour Party that Morgan McSweeney has desperately been trying to yank Starmer away from: woke, anti-Brexit, and more preoccupied with Leftist posturing than delivering for voters.”
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