Claims Andy Burnham will be ‘Labour’s first woman PM’ RIDICULED as Kemi blasts ‘they still don’t know what a woman is’

TORY leader Kemi Badenoch and author JK Rowling ridiculed Labour over claims Andy Burnham will be its “first woman PM”.

They spoke out after a party figure revealed the wannabe leader would enter No10 backed by an entourage of female advisers and backers.

The ex-Greater Manchester Mayor will become PM on July 17 if no other candidate steps forward to force a contest.

Labour has been beset by problems on gender issues, including Sir Keir Starmer saying 99.9 per cent of women “haven’t got a penis”.

A party figure told The Spectator that Labour craved a female PM but was cautious as she would have pushed an unashamedly female agenda on health, education, family finances and safer streets.

But they said Mr Burnham would be “genuinely passionate about all those traditionally female-oriented issues, and much less so with the bombs and budgets”.

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They added we could “finally see what Labour has failed to deliver, a female PM in all but sex”.

Mocking the party, Ms Badenoch said: “Labour might have changed leader, but they still don’t know what a woman is.”

Harry Potter author and women’s rights campaigner Ms Rowling waded in, saying: “Great news.

“The Labour Party has finally found a woman they fancy as leader.

“It’s a man who’ll be ‘a female PM in all but sex’.”

Claire Coutinho, Shadow equalities minister, added: “I, for one, only focus my tiny lady mind on energy, the economy or defence when I’m trying to impress the boys.”

And Labour MP Tulip Siddiq added: “If there’s anything to make me feel more angry about the fact that no female MP has put themselves forward to be our Leader, it’s reading utter insulting nonsense like this.”