Sunak and Starmer turn nasty again at PMQs

Keir Starmer is very fond of giving ‘deeply personal’ interviews where he tries to bring some colour to his grey suited image. He is also increasingly keen on deeply personal attacks on Rishi Sunak at Prime Minister’s Questions, as today’s session showed. 

The Labour leader ramped up his attacks on Sunak as a ludicrously rich, out-of-touch leader, telling the Commons the PM was ‘clueless about life outside of his bubble’, of regarding contactless cards as being something from Mars, and of ‘smiling his way through the cost of living crisis’. He reminded MPs of the old video of a young Sunak boasting that he didn’t know any working class people, and of the more recent clip of him telling voters in Tunbridge Wells that he’d diverted money from poorer areas to richer seats such as theirs. 

Sunak for his part was ready with his own personal attacks, presumably feeling they had been licensed both by Starmer’s own questions at PMQs and also the recent controversial