PMQs review: Rishi Sunak struggles to impress his restless party
Tory MPs are not grateful for the Prime Minister or optimistic about their prospects.
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Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) is a constitutional convention whereby the prime minister answers questions from opposition MPs, held every Wednesday at noon while parliament is sitting. The practice of the prime minister taking questions at fixed times of the week was introduced by Harold Macmillan in 1961, on the recommendation of the House of Commons’ Procedure Committee, though the format has changed several times since then.
PMQs today: Keir Starmer skewers Rishi Sunak over Rwanda
The Labour leader has devised a potent line of attack on the government’s flagship asylum plan.
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PMQs today: Rishi Sunak panics as he brands the EU the enemy
Sunak’s suggestion that Keir Starmer was “backing an EU country over Britain” by meeting the Greek Prime Minister was astonishingly…
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PMQs today: Rishi Sunak changes his line on Gaza
The Prime Minister said he supported “specific pauses” to allow humanitarian aid to reach Gaza.
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PMQs today: Keir Starmer reaches a careful balance on Israel
The Labour leader is seeking to draw attention to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza without reopening old divides.
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PMQs today: Starmer rattles Sunak as he brands him “inaction man”
The Prime Minister’s attack on Starmer over his links to Jeremy Corbyn seemed desperate.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer talks tough on spending
The Labour leader co-opted the Tories’ “magic money tree” line of attack.
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PMQs: Angela Rayner demolishes Oliver Dowden
Labour’s deputy leader invoked past Tory failures as she channelled John Prescott’s 1996 PMQs appearance.
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PMQs: Sunak was missing, but was hardly missed
The Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden did his best to copy the PM’s “blame Labour” routine.
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PMQs: Sunak’s housing policies are built on sand
By attacking the Conservatives on homeownership and house-building, Starmer is turning a traditional Tory strength into a weakness.
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PMQs: Rishi Sunak sees how it all might end
The rattled Prime Minister could not defend himself against charges of a “Tory mortgage penalty”.
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PMQs today: Rishi Sunak comes out fighting
The PM managed to land blows on Labour and the SNP in spite of the Tories’ political and economic woes.
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PMQs today: Oliver Dowden outclassed by Angela Rayner
The Deputy Prime Minister struggled to justify the government’s obstruction of the Covid inquiry.
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PMQs today: Starmer hits Sunak’s immigration weak spot
The message from Labour was that the government has failed to train British workers.
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PMQs today: lacklustre deputies fail to inspire
Oliver Dowden and Angela Rayner’s tired back and forth suggests the parties are suffering from post-local election fatigue.
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PMQs: The Tories will need a “bigger note” to excuse economic failures
Keir Starmer turned the Conservatives’ favourite line about the infamous “there is no money” letter against them.
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PMQs: Angela Rayner reads Dominic Raab his eulogy
The Labour deputy leader showed the power of her party’s focus on failures to tackle violence against women.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer talks tough on migrants
Rhetoric is hardening – on both sides.
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PMQs: The two leaders are entering election mode
Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are feeling more confident after the past week.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer takes the Commons on a tour of Tory scandals
From Nahim Zahawi to Dominic Raab to Boris Johnson… is Rishi Sunak too weak to deal with his own party?
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