The prime minister says Tennant is "the problem" after the actor says Ms Badenoch should "shut up".
Rishi Sunak has intervened in a row between Kemi Badenoch and actor David Tennant, saying the Doctor Who star is "the problem".
Tennant suggested at the British LGBT Awards last week that he wanted a world where the equalities minister "doesn't exist any more", and said she should "shut up".
The prime minister posted on X, external that freedom of speech was the "most powerful feature of our democracy", adding: "If you’re calling for women to shut up and wishing they didn’t exist, you are the problem."
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told broadcasters he "wouldn't have engaged the way he (Tennant) did," adding that "robust" discussions should be respectful.
Trying to reframe Tennant's comments as having anything to do with the Minister's race or gender is exactly the kind of disingenuous strawmanning bald-faced bullshit we can ever expect from the fucking Tories.
david tennant: im sorry did you say something im currently taking my family to see the mean girls play with my support non binary kids pin bc ill still be here after july 5th
I bet Tennant is worried now as Sunak gives him both barrels and even Starmer is sticking the boot in, or whatever that half-arsed nonsense is all about.
I don't think Sunak believes in anything, which is why his career was spawned by Boris Johnson. The whole of that cohort are the same; purely political. That's why they have failed so miserably to convince anyone.