21/05/2025 05:40
The Guardian
In today’s newsletter: The government has cancelled its women’s conference, citing legal uncertainty after the supreme court ruling. As the EHRC delays full guidance, frustration and confusion growGood morning.The Labour party is to cancel its national women’s conference while it waits for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to issue its final guidance on how to apply the supreme court ruling that the term “woman” in the Equality Act only applies to a “biological woman”.Israel-Gaza war | UK-Israeli relations have plunged to their worst state for decades with the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, suspending negotiations over a new free trade deal, saying Israel’s cabinet ministers’ calls to “purify Gaza” by expelling Palestinians were repellent, monstrous and extremist.UK politics | Keir Starmer boasted of a “hat-trick of deals” with India, the US and the EU, telling MPs they will protect thousands of jobs and save businesses hundreds of millions of pounds.Water industry | The government has withdrawn the large bonuses due to be paid to Thames Water executives from an emergency £3bn loan, after Guardian reporting.Climate crisis | The climate crisis has raised the price of commodities and exacerbated famine – and only strong action on greenhouse gas emissions can restore economic stability, the UN’s climate chief has said.Foreign policy | The mother of the imprisoned British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has announced she has resumed a near-total hunger strike. Continue reading...
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