Another week, another Prime Minister’s Questions featuring the two party leaders trading exactly the same insult: you don’t believe in anything. Keir Starmer wanted to argue that Rishi Sunak didn’t believe in his own Rwanda policy, while the Prime Minister tried to claim that the Labour leader would say anything to get what he needed at any given moment in time.
Starmer entered the chamber with the upper hand, given the turmoil in the Tory party over Rwanda. He maintained it throughout the session, painting the Rwanda policy as ridiculous and inviting MPs to laugh at the Prime Minister as often as possible. He labelled the deportation policy a ‘farce’, and opened with a jokey question about whether the government had found the 4,250 asylum seekers who had disappeared. ‘Has he found them yet?’ he asked, to laughter.
It scarcely needed Starmer to point out that Sunak hadn’t answered the question
Sunak responded that ‘in spite of him blocking every single attempt that we have taken’, the government’s plan on immigration was working.
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