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<p>Joe Baker, Labour group leader at Redditch Borough Council, called Maclean's remarks both "absolutely vile" and "hateful."</p> <section data-component="text-block">
<p>"People who hold positions of authority should be looking after those they are in a position to serve," he said. "I understand that the situation is sensitive and I believe everyone has a right to their opinions, but when that opinion promotes hate and harm then this needs to be challenged."<br>
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Poulton told the outlet: "We'll see what happens at the ballot box."</p>
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“While the Greens don’t know what a woman is, my Worcestershire neighbours the people of Bromsgrove certainly do.”{ai:summary}<p>#politics
Conservative MP Rachel Maclean refuses to apologize for calling her election rival, Melissa Poulton, a trans-identified biological male. Maclean stands by her belief that there is a difference between biological women and trans women. Poulton, previously known as a man named Matthew Viner, accuses Maclean of transphobia.</p>

British Conservative MP will NOT apologize for calling transgender opponent ‘a man who wears a wig and calls himself a proud lesbian’

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