{"id":69872,"date":"2026-02-13T18:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/starmer-condemns-reform-uks-racist-rhetoric-uk-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:40:49","slug":"starmer-condemns-reform-uks-racist-rhetoric-uk-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/starmer-condemns-reform-uks-racist-rhetoric-uk-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer condemns Reform UK\u2019s \u2018racist rhetoric\u2019 \u2013 UK politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cd52d672ac3a1b1a489860261c5a27e96a1c4cb8\/1675_175_3893_3114\/master\/3893.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctbGl2ZS5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=c1abb991a2aa1dcf71f5f2901fc8c524\" alt=\"Starmer condemns Reform UK\u2019s \u2018racist rhetoric\u2019 \u2013 UK politics live\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Starmer condemns Reform UK\u2019s \u2018racist rhetoric\u2019 \u2013 UK politics live<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">PM says country\u2019s discourse is being poisoned and polluted by rhetoric \u2018pitting communities against one another\u2019The 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 \u2013 described as an \u201cinterim update\u201d \u2013 was controversial because it was seen as over-prescriptive, and the Good Law Project launched a legal challenge.We welcome the court\u2019s 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\u2019s 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<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/feb\/13\/keir-starmer-cabinet-secretary-chris-wormald-labour-badenoch-conservatives-uk-latest-news-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Starmer condemns Reform UK\u2019s \u2018racist rhetoric\u2019 \u2013 UK politics live PM says country\u2019s discourse is being poisoned and polluted by rhetoric \u2018pitting communities against one another\u2019The 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}