Tristram Hunt MP hits back at Daily Mail’s criticism of sex education plans
By Josh Haggis
Tristram Hunt has hit back at the Daily Mail after it criticised Labour’s new sex education plans.
The party announced this week that they hope to introduce age-appropriate compulsory sex and relationships education to children of all ages in every state school in the UK, in a bid to help tackle homophobia and sexual abuse. Read the plans in full here.
The proposals were criticised in yesterday’s (February 4) Daily Mail, where Margaret Morrissey of Parents Outloud argued that “we need to let children be children” rather than showing them material that they could find “quite scary”.
During an event in honour of LGBT History Month last night, Hunt argued has now argued that the Daily Mail’s disapproval “proved” that his plans are going in the right direction.
“If I had any doubt that I was not on the right track, the Daily Mail this morning proved that I was in the right direction,” said Hunt. “It’s one of those litmus tests for Labour politicians – the equal and opposite Newtonian reaction to a good idea is the Daily Mail telling you it’s a bad idea.
He continued: “I’m hugely proud to be launching this report about the Labour party’s commitment to eliminating homophobic, biphobic, transphobic bullying in our schools.
“We need a zero tolerance approach to this culture, to make sure that our schools are our schools are places of confidence of gender and sexual identity where young people express their identities fully, and then achieve all they are capable of achieving,” he added.
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