The Director of Public Prosecutions has appointed a controversial transgender activist to a key diversity role at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Sophie Cook, a transgender woman who was a Labour Party candidate at the 2017 general election, has been appointed to a new role as the CPS’s “speak-out champion.”
But the appointment by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill QC, has been greeted with alarm by some on social media considering Cook’s track record of clashing with feminist women.
We Are Fair Cop, a group of lawyers and police officers dedicated to removing politics from policing, responded on Twitter on Thursday: “State bodies need to ask themselves what is more important—their commitment to political neutrality or their continued performative signalling to one minority group?”…