A prominent candidate for the Tory leadership, the former home secretary took aim at the LGBT+ emblem on Monday at the National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC.
“One monstrous thing—that I was a member of a government that presided over the mutilation of children in our hospitals and in our schools,” the speaker remarked in reference to the government’s decision to display the flag on its buildings.
The Conservatives’ assertion that they “were doing something about trans fanatics when, in fact, what we did was let it happen” “physically repulsed” Ms. Braverman, who added that it was all part of “a horrible political campaign.”.
When questioned about News’s remarks, Lord Houchen, the party’s lone surviving metro mayor following the local elections in May, stated that they had “no place within the Conservative leadership contest.”
He acknowledged that “genuine and valid conversations and debates around policy on trans rights [and] on women’s only spaces” were to be had, but he also said that Ms. Braverman engaged in “a very cack-handed thing of trying to convolute some very sensitive issues around gay rights as well, and pride, which she convoluted with all the policy.”
