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The PM hit back, saying no Tory MPs thought she would be the Conservative leader at the next general election.

Following the question session in the Commons, a Downing Street spokesperson was asked if the PM would be apologising to Duffield.

Asked if Sir Keir still believed that a transgender woman was a woman, the PM's official spokesman said: "No, the Supreme Court judgment has made clear that when looking at the Equality Act, a woman is a biological woman."

The spokesman stressed the PM had repeatedly said "a woman is an adult female" before the court judgment.

Asked whether Sir Keir would use a trans woman's preferred pronouns, the spokesman declined to comment on "hypotheticals" but insisted the PM had "been clear that trans women should be treated with the same dignity and respect as anyone else".