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Labour has been accused of deliberately delaying efforts to stamp out radical gender ideology. Pressure is mounting on the Government to publish new guidelines which campaigners said would end "absurd witch-hunts" and protect female-only spaces.

The bloated public sector - employing more than 6 million people - was told to adhere to the law in the wake of an unequivocal Supreme Court ruling on biological sex.

An updated code of practice drawn up by the Equality and Human Rights Commission was passed to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, who is also Minister for Women and Equalities, on September 4.

One month later, the regulator wrote to her demanding that it be brought to Parliament as soon as possible.

Yet one year later, there has been no progress.

In a blistering intervention, Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine, who drew up the equality law changes, claimed Ms Phillipson was putting "personal ambition" ahead of her duty over fears that pro-trans backbenchers and activists could scupper any chance of a promotion.

Thursday marks the first anniversary of the Supreme Court judgment, which ruled that trans women are not legally women for the purposes of the Equality Act.

Lady Falkner said the unacceptable delay "betrayed" women who have a right to expect that trans women - biological men - are barred from female toilets and changing rooms.

The peer also accused Sir Keir Starmer of failing to uphold the law on women's spaces -despite being a lawyer himself.

Lady Falkner, who led the Equality and Human Rights Commission until November, said: "You have a Government led by a lawyer, supposedly mindful of the rule of law, yet he's unable to uphold it in its most visible form, which is statutory guidance produced by a regulator, an independent regulator of that law."

In its landmark ruling issued on April 16, the Supreme Court clarified the law, stating that biological sex is irrefutable in terms of the Equality Act, which provides legal protection in the workplace.

The EHRC was forced to undertake a major update of the existing code of practice - first published in 2011 - to reflect significant developments in legislation and case law, including the threshold for a philosophical belief to be protected and, most significantly, the Supreme Court judgment on the definition of sex.

It said: "We have been clear that service providers, associations and public functions should not wait for the code of practice to be published to make any changes needed to comply with the law. As duty-bearers, they must assure themselves of their legal responsibilities in their own specific circumstances and seek independent legal advice where necessary."

A Government spokesperson previously told the Express: "The EHRC has submitted a draft Code of Practice to Ministers, and we are working at pace to review it with the care it deserves.

"This is a 300-page-long and legally complex document, and it is important for service providers that we get this right. It would be catastrophic for single-sex services to follow guidance that wasn't legally robust and then place them in legal jeopardy again. That is why it is vital we get this right.

"We have always been clear that the proper process needs to be followed, and we are following it."