Rosie Duffield was caught on camera looking unimpressed when Sir Keir Starmer refused to apologise to her over a trans row during PMQs. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch urged the Prime Minister to say sorry to the Canterbury MP, who he has repeatedly clashed with over her stance on women's rights.

It comes after Sir Keir yesterday U-turned on his previous claim that trans women are women following a landmark Supreme Court ruling last week. Speaking in the Commons, Mrs Badenoch said: "Will he now apologise to the very brave member of Canterbury for hounding her out of the Labour Party, simply for telling the truth?"

Sir Keir replied: "I've always approached this on the basis that we should treat everyone with dignity and respect whatever their different views and I'll continue to do so."

As the Prime Minister made his comments the camera turned to Ms Duffield who was furiously shaking her head.

He went on: "My approach will be to support the ruling, to protect single-sex spaces and treat everybody with dignity and respect, and I believe there's a consensus in this House and the country for that approach."

Mrs Badenoch said: "He's clearly so uncomfortable talking about this subject. This is a choice between a Conservative Party that stood up for common sense and a Labour Party that bent the knee to every passing fad.

"This is a question about moral courage, about doing the right thing even when it is difficult, and the truth is he doesn't have the balls. The Prime Minister only tells people what they want to hear, he is a weather vane who twists in the wind.

"He cheered an ideology that denied safe spaces to women and girls because he thought it was cool to do so. He hounded a brave female MP out of his party for telling the truth he accepts now. And now he is hiding behind the Supreme Court judgment and isn't that because he doesn't know what he actually believes?"

A clip of the moment was shared on X by now Independent MP Ms Duffield, who quit Labour last year with a scathing attack on the PM.

She said: "Oh dear. After almost eight years, you do forget the cameras sometimes...!"

Elsewhere, the Independent MP told LBC Radio that Sir Keir's U-turn on whether a transgender woman is a woman showed he was a "manager rather than a leader".