Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions was less about Rishi Sunak and more about the Tories around him. Keir Starmer opened his attack by describing the Conservatives as ‘the political wing of the flat earth society’. He said that ‘Tory MPs spent last week claiming that Britain is run by a shadowy cabal made up of activists, the deep state and most chillingly of all, the Financial Times’.

Starmer’s second question referenced Liz Truss directly, but the first question was clearly designed to take in Lee Anderson’s comments about Sadiq Khan handing control of London to Islamists. His argument on both was that the Tories weren’t serious about governing any more, and Sunak wasn’t strong enough to whip them into shape – or, as Starmer demanded in the case of Truss – remove the whip.

Sunak’s rejoinder was one we hear regularly from both party leaders: your racism/prejudice/general party discipline problem is worse than mine. He told the Labour leader that he had ‘sat there while anti-Semitism ran rife in his party and not once, but twice, backed a man who called Hamas his friends’. He added that while the shadow chancellor, the shadow Home Secretary and the shadow foreign secretary had refused to back Jeremy Corbyn, Starmer had and this meant he was ‘spineless, hopeless, utterly shameless’. Starmer carried on complaining that Sunak was ‘too weak to do anything about it’.

The two men continued to trade insults like teenagers comparing their puny arms in a gym mirror

The two men continued to trade insults like teenagers comparing their puny arms in a gym mirror: Sunak had suspended his MP quicker than Starmer had with his Rochdale candidate, Starmer had campaigned for Corbyn, Sunak’s party wanted to welcome Nigel Farage back into the Tory fold.

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PMQs: Starmer and Sunak argue over who has the bigger racism problem

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28.02.2024

Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions was less about Rishi Sunak and more about the Tories around him. Keir Starmer opened his attack by describing the Conservatives as ‘the political wing of the flat earth society’. He said that ‘Tory MPs spent last week claiming that Britain is run by a shadowy cabal made up of activists, the deep state and most chillingly of all, the Financial Times’.

Starmer’s second question referenced Liz........

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