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Part of Education – in the House of Commons at on 2 March 2026.

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Photo of Laura Trott Laura Trott Shadow Secretary of State for Education

The answer should have been “never”. That is what our guidance said, and that is what the Government’s guidance should have said.

In our universities, gender-critical feminists have been kicked off campus, while today the ayatollah is being celebrated as a martyr at University College London. This is completely unacceptable, so what is the Secretary of State doing to crack down on this two-tier system, or is she going to sit on her hands while an enemy of Britain is celebrated?

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