British prime minister Rishi Sunak has been secretly filmed mocking trans people in footage shared exclusively with PinkNews[…]
The footage is from a party with the 1922 Committee – a group of all-Conservative MPs that meets weekly when Parliament is sitting – on 5 June 2023

PinkNews has seen an exclusive photograph from the event, and it is estimated that up to a hundred MPs were in attendance, including notable Tories such as 1922 Committee chair Sir Graham Brady and veteran’s affairs minister Johnny Mercer. Philip Hollobone, MP for Kettering, and Desmond Swain, MP for New Forest West, were also at the gathering

Sunak’s address and his choice of humour[…]is met with raucous laughter from Tory MPs[…]
In the leaked recording, Sunak can be heard saying: “It shows his spectacular misjudgement and why he’s completely unfit to lead our country”

It is unclear who Sunak is referring to, but likely to be the Labour leader Keir Starmer, who has also come under fire for appearing to support proposals for schools to ‘out’ trans pupils to their parents

“Over the same period of time, you might have noticed Ed Davey has been very busy,” Sunak continues

“Like me, you can probably see that he was trying to convince everybody that women clearly had penises

“You’ll all know that I’m a big fan of everybody studying maths to 18, but it turns out that we need to focus on biology”[…]
The person who shared the video with PinkNews said: “The veneer of freedom of speech publicly is one thing but to make jokes in private, it’s another thing altogether[…]
They added: “There was laughter, there were quite a few younger attendees who looked visibly uncomfortable”