Rishi Sunak is facing cross-party pressure to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group after Tehran’s assault on Israel over the weekend. Victoria Atkins, the health secretary, has told MPs that the Cass report shows that young people attending gender clinics in recent years received harmful treatment because this was an area “where fashionable cultural values have overtaken evidence, safety and biological reality”. In a statement in the Commons, she also said that confirmed that all adult gender clinics – six of which had refused to take part in Dr Cass’s study – have now agreed to “fully co-operate” and to provide information about the outcome of patients receiving medical treatment to change gender. She said: All bar one of the adult gender clinics refused to co-operate with this vital research, this is unacceptable, to quote Dr Cass – I’d go even further, I think it is deplorable. It is a dereliction of their professional duty and so I’m pleased to update the house that following the publication of Dr Cass’s report, I have been informed that all seven clinical leads in adult gender services now intend to fully participate in this important work. Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said what the Cass report revealed was a “scandal” – although his explanation of what made it a scandal was not the same as Atkins’. He told MPs: For the sake of all of those children, young people and now adults, but particularly those being referred into gender identity services today, we have a duty to get this right. What has emerged in the Cass review is a scandal. It is a scandal that children and young people are waiting far too long, often years for care while their wellbeing deteriorates and their childhood slips away. It is scandalous that medical interventions have been made on the basis of shaky evidence. It is scandalous that despite all this some NHS providers refuse to co-operate with Dr Cass’s review. And perhaps the worst scandal of all is that the toxicity of this discussion means that people have felt silenced and it required investigative journalism to prompt this review taking place. The number of people travelling by small boat to seek asylum in the UK hit a new daily high for 2024 at the weekend, figures show, as Rishi Sunak braces for a fresh round of parliamentary wrangling over the Rwanda deportation bill.