JK Rowling blasts Keir Starmer for recruiting pro-trans women and girls adviser

JK Rowling has lashed out at Sir Keir Starmer for appointing Harriet Harman as an adviser on women and girls (Picture: PA/Getty Images)

JK Rowling has criticised Sir Keir Starmer for appointing Labour grandee Baroness Harriet Harman as an adviser on women and girls.

The outspoken novelist pointed to Harman’s comments supporting trans rights, counting trans women as women.

Following a drubbing at the local elections, Starmer has turned to several old figures in an attempt to get his premiership back on track.

These included Harman, a former Labour deputy leader and Britain’s longest serving female MP from 1982 to 2024, and former PM Gordon Brown.

However, Rowling blasted the PM’s latest move...