Prime Minister’s Questions was very much not the main event today, with MPs looking forward to Volodymyr Zelensky’s address in Westminster Hall afterwards. Keir Starmer kept his questions to the theme of UK political unity in supporting Ukraine in their fight against Russia, while SNP leader Stephen Flynn used his two questions to ridicule the interventions made by Liz Truss.
Starmer appeared to have three aims with his questions. The first was to leave Zelensky in no doubt that Labour was as supportive of his fight against Putin as the Conservative party. He used soaring rhetoric about standing on the shoulders of giants to ‘support Ukraine’s fight for freedom’ and repeatedly talked about the whole house agreeing on this.
Sunak and Starmer benefitted from the exchanges, which shows they were made with true unity in mind
The second was to assert the kind of Labour party Starmer was leading. He talked about the ‘unshakeable’ commitment Labour had to Nato.
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