The Labour leader said Rosie Duffield, who is not attending the party conference in Brighton after receiving threats and being branded transphobic, was wrong to say “only women have a cervix”.
Refusing to nationalise energy firms is a major departure from the leadership of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.
Sir Keir has been forced to ditch a key element of his proposed shake-up of Labour’s internal rules.
The Labour leader is still pushing ahead with some reforms, but has U-turned on ditching one-member-one-vote.
Corbyn said the current leadership “props up rather than challenges our broken political and economic system”.
But a power sharing alliance with the SNP was dismissed as a “political dead end”.
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Starmer wants to scrap ‘One Member, One Vote’ in favour of a controversial return to an electoral college.