The former head of the Government's equalities watchdog has accused Labour of "completely abandoning" women's rights in its handling of the grooming gangs scandal and transgender debate. Baroness Kishwer Falkner, who headed up the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2020 to 2025, said Labour was traditionally the "party of feminism" – an ethos that has been "lost" by its current cohort of MPs. She suggested that Sir Keir Starmer 's party has failed to stand up for "oppressed and vulnerable" women and girls who were sexually exploited by grooming gang s and left transgender people in a "grey zone" by delaying the release of guidance on the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in April.

"What really depresses me about the current state of the Labour Party is that they seem to have co

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