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welcome to viewers on bbc two, bbc iplayer and bbc news. let's start with this headline which you also heard at the top of the programme. bbc announces dates for election tv debates. yes, the first programme is this friday evening, seven parties having been invited. there is a question time debate later with the largest four parties, and a head—to—head debate between the prime minister and labour leader keir starmer onjune 26. as well as the bbc election debates, stv are also holding a televised debate in scotland this evening, and itv are hosting the first head—to—head debat...

Was blocked by westminster successfully, i grant you, but the question of it being a reserve matter, which means devolved governments could not introduce legislation as they try to do in terms of gender recognition or self identification, you are going to stop that with your proposal? because you can't have a woman being one thing in scotland and something different in england. you cannot have that, and we must remember why we are doing this. it's not because the conservative party wants to do it, as wes streeting says. we had hundreds of thousands of people signing a petition, women crying ou...

Sex to— equality act, the intention was for sex to relate to biological sex and the distinction to be made with gender— the distinction to be made with gender identity and to recognise both as — gender identity and to recognise both as protected characteristics. as with— both as protected characteristics. as with other areas of the law there might— as with other areas of the law there might be _ as with other areas of the law there might be times where there two rub up might be times where there two rub up against _ might be times where there two rub up against each other and we have...

Say open to interpretation. they believe that is the original intention of the act and they say that the meaning of sex has evolved over time, that's why a change in the law is needed and it will give greater legal protection to people who run single sex spaces and they talk about things like hospital wards and rape crisis centres. the other thing they will do is to make it a reserve matterfor other thing they will do is to make it a reserve matter for westminster, so it will be westminster that decides on these things which could be an interesting way to go on this. so that is what they are p...

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