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PMQs

July 2024

  • Simon Jenkins

    Keir Starmer, please – scrap the distasteful weekly brawl that is PMQs

    Simon Jenkins
    Parliament’s fusty old procedures badly need updating. The PM should start with a spectacle that serves no benefit, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

  • Keir Starmer clashes with SNP over two-child benefit cap in first PMQs as prime minister – video

    Keir Starmer faced questions about a Commons rebellion on the two-child benefit limit during the first prime minister's questions since the election
  • Keir Starmer speaking in parliament

    Starmer dodges questions on two-child benefit cap rebellion in first PMQs as PM

    Prime minister counters SNP questions with statistics on Scottish child poverty after stripping seven MPs of whip

22 May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak attends a Conservative party rally

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak says Labour taking victory for granted as Starmer calls on voters to ‘stop the chaos’ – as it happened

    Prime minister announces early summer election with date putting parties on campaign trail for six weeks
  • Rishi Sunak speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons

    Speculation mounts as No 10 refuses to rule out general election announcement

    With the cabinet preparing to meet, Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson also declines to say if there will be a reshuffle
  • Craig Mackinlay is applauded by members of parliament.

    MP Craig Mackinlay returns to Commons after having hands and feet amputated

    Sunak and Starmer pay tribute to South Thanet MP as he returns to chamber after sepsis ordeal

15 May 2024

  • Esther McVey had said civil servants should leave their political views ‘at the building entrance’.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: I never called for rainbow lanyard ban, claims Esther McVey – as it happened

    ‘Common sense minister’ denies plan to Channel 4 News despite saying earlier this week that lanyards should be a ‘standard design’
  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    The end is nigh and Labour MPs just want to have fun. At the Tories’ expense

    John Crace
    Keir Starmer doesn’t even prep for PMQs any more. Rish! is sunk but doesn’t see he’s in self-destruct mode

  • PMQs: Starmer grills Sunak over early release of prisoners – video

    Keir Starmer questions the prime minister on the government's plans to release prisoners early in an effort to ease overcrowding

8 May 2024

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Natalie Elphicke’s queasy welcome shows Labour will turn no one away

    John Crace
    A quick win is a quick win for Keir Starmer. Never mind the politics, just feel that Tory majority weakening
  • Labour leader Keir Starmer greets Natalie Elphicke, MP for Dover, after her defection from the Conservatives.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour defends welcoming rightwing Tory MP Natalie Elphicke into party – as it happened

    Natalie Elphicke said she was defecting to Labour due to ‘broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic government’

  • PMQs: Sunak is 'a dodgy salesman desperate to sell a dud', says Starmer – video

    Labour leader Keir Starmer enjoyed a victory lap at PMQs on Wednesday, taunting the prime minister after a series of significant setbacks in last week's local elections

1 May 2024

  • Humza Yousaf speaks in Holyrood during the no confidence debate.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Scotland’s SNP government wins no confidence vote called by Labour – as it happened

  • PMQs: Sunak and Starmer clash over taxes and pensions – video

24 April 2024

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Down, down, deeper and Dowden: how can Rishi’s stand-in be so useless?

    John Crace
    The two deputies had another chance to trade blows but it was a one-sided contest, as Angela Rayner went in for the kill
  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with Rishi Sunak after a press conference in Berlin.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak claims defence spending plan won’t affect government’s ability to cut taxes – as it happened

    Prime minister gives joint press conference with Olaf Scholz and denies misleading people over spending plans
  • Angela Rayner speaking at PMQs

    Angela Rayner tells ministers to focus on no-fault evictions, not her house sale

    Deputy Labour leader also criticises watering-down of leasehold reform plans while facing Oliver Dowden at deputy PMQs

17 April 2024

  • A protest against Rwanda deportations in March

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Further delay to Rwanda bill’s passage as Lords vote through amendments – as it happened

    Move follows vote in Commons where MPs voted down four amendments inserted by Lords yesterday

  • Starmer accuses Sunak of 'smearing a working-class woman' after Rayner tax jibe – video

    Rishi Sunak took a swipe at the deputy Labour leader, Angela Rayner, at PMQs over sale of former council house
  • Angela Rayner speaking at the 2022 Labour conference, behind a plinth with a sign reading: 'Labour, a fairer, greener future'

    Keir Starmer calls tax accusations against Angela Rayner a ‘smear’

    Labour leader defends deputy amid scrutiny of 2015 house sale, as police say she is facing investigation over ‘a number of assertions’
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