Kemi Badenoch claimed she was getting better every week at PMQs

Kemi Badenoch has been brutally mocked for claiming she is “getting better” at her job as Tory leader “every week”.

During their weekly debate at prime minister’s questions, Keir Starmer reminded all the MPs in the Commons how Badenoch claimed she was improving in her role at the weekend.

Her remark came after the back-handed compliment from her own shadow chancellor Mel Stride, who bizarrely promised his boss “would get better” at her own job last week.

So Starmer put it to Badenoch today that “she could start for apologising for the Liz Truss budget, that would be better.”

But Badenoch dodged that jibe – and instead seemed to invite even more criticism, saying: “Mr Speaker, I get better every week, he gets worse!”

Her words sparked a wave of laughter from the Labour benches, so much so the House speaker Lindsay Hoyle had to cut in to reprimand them.

He shouted: “If you think that is a good look, it is a very bad look – I’d think twice before you try to shout somebody down in that way.”

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