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yes. so, in summary, what is it? so, what happened was, last month, the scottish parliament, by a pretty big majority, passed this legislation and the legislation, this gender bill, seeks to remove administrative and medical barriers to changing the sex on your birth certificate. that's basically what it does. it's passed the scottish parliament and it was waiting to be given the rubber stamp by the king, royal assent. but, crucially, while the issue of trans rights is devolved to the scottish parliament, the issue of equalities is something that's decided at westminster — on behal...

In his high—tech pufferjacket in the snow in davos in switzerland, here in the newscast studio, we have got bridget phillipson, labour mp, shadow education secretary. welcome. good to see you. davos — let's talk about davos for a minute and talking to grant shapps, there. it is a curious old gathering, isn't it? plenty of critics will say it kind of screams the global elite. keir starmer has been over there as well in the last few days. what is the value of it? we were asking grant shapps that. to you, what is value of your leader going off and mingling with a load of millionaires and chie...

I was talking to the first minister the other day, and i suggested to her that perhaps this was just an honest disagreement between the two sides. that both of you were approaching it in good faith and there was an honest disagreement. nonsense. she used similar words to suggest otherwise. absolute nonsense. but let me put to use something you hear from those in government here in westminster, which is almost like the counterpoint, which is that they say you guys must have seen this coming, where the outcome could be useful to you either way. either you get the law that you are really keen on ...

The general election as a de facto referendum. in other words, if you or you and perhaps other pro—independence parties can win more than 50% of the vote in a general election, you would take that as a mandate to open negotiations with westminster over scotland leaving the united kingdom. so she does that first and then she says, we're going to have a special party conference to decide whether that's a good idea. that's a bit odd, isn't it? i think the uk set up is pretty odd, to tell you the truth. so, first of all, you are right, we are going to have a conference about this. but why announ...

Are not sitting in whitehall, but government is shifting itself out of london as well. so i mean, i agree with the idea that, you know, the country, the closer you can govern to people, the better. but in the end, we are one nation. you have got to collect the money somewhere. decisions have to be made somehow and actually, i do think the west midlands has done superbly well under andy street and long may it last. well, something that is happening all across the nation, it is strikes, isn't it? i mean, we have seen, what, nurses, teachers, paramedics, civil servants all out or heading out in t...