Labour MPs attend protest with activist who was jailed for murder bid

2023-01-19

Labour MPs risk sparking outrage after attending protest with trans activist who was jailed for murder bid

Three of the party’s Left-wingers appeared at a protest next to Sarah Jane Baker
The activist told the crowd she had been ‘in prison because I was violent’
She now wanted to get into Parliament and invite everyone ‘round’ to take drugs

Labour MPs have been blasted for sharing a platform with a transgender activist who was previously jailed for attempted murder and kidnap.

Three of the party’s Left-wingers appeared at a trans rights protest next to Sarah Jane Baker, who served 30 years behind bars.

During the demonstration outside Downing Street, the activist told the crowd she had been ‘in prison because I was violent’ but now wanted to get into Parliament and invite everyone ‘round’ to take drugs.

The MPs were also present when the activists struck up an offensive chant about their party leader Sir Keir Starmer.

Three of the party’s Left-wingers appeared at a trans rights protest next to Sarah Jane Baker, who served 30 years behind bars. Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who was accused of shouting down Tory MP Miriam Cates in the Commons this week, was at the Whitehall protest on Wednesday night and was pictured standing next to ex-prisoner Ms Baker

Last night the MPs insisted they did not know who Ms Baker was and did not hear nor endorse her comments.

However a Government source said: ‘A cabal of Labour MPs cosying up to fanatics like this is why women worry about Labour ever getting near to power.’

And Harry Miller, of campaign group Fair Cop, who filmed the event, said: ‘Labour has gone from championing the working class to championing a minority cause led by the sad, the dangerous and the deluded. They shouldn’t be anywhere near power.’

It comes just days after male Labour MPs barracked a female colleague for speaking out in favour of women’s rights in the dispute over Scotland’s radical plan for gender self-ID.

Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who was accused of shouting down Tory MP Miriam Cates in the Commons this week, was at the Whitehall protest on Wednesday night and was pictured standing next to ex-prisoner Ms Baker. Next to him were fellow Labour MPs Olivia Blake and Nadia Whittome.

Just before they spoke, Ms Baker said through a megaphone: ‘I need the trans community to share my social media and get me into Parliament. I was in prison but I’m not a liar.’ She said she had been ‘violent’ and ‘mentally ill’ but also ‘poor’ and a ‘product of the system’.

She said she wanted to become an MP to ‘protect my family’ and went on: ‘Get me into Parliament. I swear down, you put me in there, I’ll invite you all round for f****** mushrooms and a spliff.’

Ms Baker was wearing a bright red beret, as she often does in public, and is well known for having given interviews about her past as well as having written a book called Transgender Behind Prison Walls.

Originally jailed for kidnapping and torturing her stepmother’s brother, she was then convicted while behind bars of the attempted murder of another inmate.

In 2021 she appeared at London Trans Pride march where protesters held signs stating ‘kill JK Rowling’ and ‘be trans do crime’.

However the Labour MPs who stood alongside her this week said they had no idea who she was.

A party spokesman said: ‘The MPs attended the demonstration at the invitation of the organisers, London Trans Pride. They were there for only a few minutes, made their speeches and then immediately left to vote. None of the MPs who attended were aware of Sarah Jane Baker or her previous comments, they have never had any interaction with her, nor did they hear comments she made at the demonstration.

‘They do not endorse and have no responsibility for the comments of someone with which they have no association.’

Meanwhile, a senior Labour frontbencher has suggested that children as young as 13 should be allowed to legally change sex.

Shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy told Times Radio that ‘we’ve got to get rid of the bureaucracy’ surrounding changing gender.

Asked if she thought a 13-year-old could go through the process – lower than the age of 16 suggested in Scotland – she replied: ‘I think they deserve to be taken seriously.’

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