I think people are exhausted by culture wars. My clear view is that the vast majority of the public are reasonable, tolerant people. Live-and-let-live is a very British thing, and what culture wars do is force people into taking sides that they're not instinctively inclined to do.
The Tories have got nowhere else to go but this divisive culture-war area, and if we win the election I want it to be a reset moment for politics in a number of different ways. The most important thing to me personally is to restore a sense that we are here to serve the country, but also this sense of bringing people together.
Although he previously stated his belief that trans women are women, and trans men are men, he and the party have U-turned and shown support for legislation that seems to say the opposite. He even called legislation that would ban trans women from female hospital wards 'common sense.'
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