It is the chattering classes’ weaponisation of Brianna Ghey’s death that is truly offensive.

The perpetually offended are it again. They’re swarming social media to let the world know they’re outraged. What’s rankled them this time? Rishi Sunak taking the piss out of Keir Starmer for not knowing what a woman is. Sunak made his swipe during PMQs in the Commons today. But here’s the thing: Esther Ghey, the mother of murdered trans teenager Brianna Ghey, was visiting parliament at the time. The offencerati are collapsing on their fainting couches. They can’t believe it. For the PM to make a ‘trans jibe’ while the grief-stricken mother of a trans teen was in the building is a new low, they’re wailing at anyone who’ll listen.

Everyone needs to calm down. First off, it wasn’t a ‘trans jibe’, as the BBC is dumbly calling it. It was a Starmer jibe. Sunak wasn’t making fun of trans people – he was making fun of the leader of the Labour Party who is notorious for rambling incoherently when anyone asks him that question he dreads most: ‘What is a woman?’ Sunak ripped Starmer for his ceaseless u-turning, including on the issue of how to ‘define a woman’. ‘Although in fairness’, said Sunak, ‘that was only 99 per cent of a u-turn’. He was referring to the time Starmer said, in an interview, that ‘99.9 per cent of women haven’t got a penis’. He was mocking his opposite number. That’s what politicians do.