Starmer condemns Reform UK’s ‘racist rhetoric’ – UK politics live

PM says country’s discourse is being poisoned and polluted by rhetoric ‘pitting communities against one another’The Equality and Human Rights Commission has welcomed a high court ruling defending the interim guidance it issued to organisations about the implications of the supreme court judgement saying that, when the Equality Act refers to sex, it means biological sex.The guidance – described as an “interim update” – was controversial because it was seen as over-prescriptive, and the Good Law Project launched a legal challenge.We welcome the court’s conclusion that the interim update was lawful and the EHRC did not act in breach of its statutory duties.We issued the interim update in response to a high level of demand immediately after the supreme court’s ruling. We were concerned that organisations and individuals could be subject to misinformation and misrepresentation of the judgment and its consequences. That might have led to them failing to comply with