Sunak and Sturgeon set for months of legal battles over decision to block gender Bill

'The Scottish Government will vigorously defend this legislation,' Nicola Sturgeon vowed - setting up a legal battle that could take months to resolve

The case is likely to end up in the Supreme Court which will decide whether or not the UK Government has exceeded its powers under Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998, which allows it to block legislation from the devolved administrations if it interferes with “reserved powers” that can only be exercised in Westminster.

Mr Sunak’s Government claims that the Equality Act which places wide-ranging duties on public bodies and others to protect minority groups is fundamentally undermined by any move to make it easier to change gender anywhere in the UK, and that having two different sets of rules in different parts of Britain will make it harder to apply the existing equalities protections.

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