Actor criticised Tory minister’s views on sex and gender and said she should ‘shut up’

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Keir Starmer has distanced himself from the actor David Tennant after he said Kemi Badenoch should “shut up”.

Tennant told an awards ceremony last week he would like to live in a world where Badenoch, the equalities minister and likely Conservative leadership contender, “doesn’t exist any more”.