A feisty edition of PMQs today, following the drama in the House yesterday evening. As predicted, Sir Keir Starmer opted to lead on Tory disunity over the Rwanda plan. He likened the Conservatives to ‘hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken comb’ before turning to reports that Rishi Sunak wanted to scrap the scheme when he was Chancellor. ‘Doesn’t he wish he’d had the courage to stick to his guns?’ he jibed. But Sunak hit back strongly, raising Sir Keir’s legal record and work defending the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir which was banned by James Cleverly on Monday.
Mr Speaker, it is rich to hear from the Honourable Gentleman about belief in something. And it will be news to him, it is actually the case that you can believe in something and stick to that position on this side of the House. Just this week Mr Speaker, we had another example of the Honourable Gentleman saying one thing and doing another because this week he backed the Home Secretary in banning the terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, despite him personally using the European Court of Human Rights to try and stop them being banned.
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