Key events43m agoRishi Sunak to face PMQs amid backlash over reports triple lock for pensions may be watered down next year1h agoTheresa May: social housing tenants viewed by some Tories as ‘second-class citizens’2h agoLabour can’t tax and spend its way out of trouble, warns Blair2h agoHow Labour says it would stop nutrient neutrality rules blocking housebuilding3h agoMinisters risk Lords defeat over plan to help housebuilders by axing river pollution lawFilters BETAKey events (5)Rishi Sunak (13)Keir Starmer (10)Angela Rayner (3)now07.24 EDT
Sunak says AI can transform the way services are delivered, but we need guardrails. He says he looks forward to the upcoming AI summit.
36s ago07.23 EDT
Ashley Dalton (Lab) asks if the government remains committed to the triple lock.
Sunak says the government is committed to it. He says Dalton should speak to Angela Rayner, who did not sound committed. And, on pensions, we all remember Labour 75p per week increase, he says.
2m ago07.22 EDT
Chris Green (Con) say his local custody suite is always full because the police are catching criminal. He praises Greater Manchester police for this.
Sunak says he is pleased about the improvements in Manchester policing. They are a model for police forces across the country, he says.
3m ago07.21 EDT
Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, says last year 22,000 people waited more than four months to start treatment for cancer. The cancer waiting time target has not been met since 2015. Waiting reduces the chance of survival. When will the target be met?
Sunak says the government wants to speed up diagnosis. The pandemic held this up. There are hundreds more oncologists working compared with last year. And more early diagnostic centres are opening. The 62-day backlog is falling, he says.
Updated at 07.22 EDT6m ago07.18 EDT
Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader at Westminster, says Rishi Sunak spends more money heating his swimming his pool than the value of the state pension. Will the Tories maintain the triple lock?
Sunak says the Tories introduced it, and have increased it. And they have cut the number of pensioners in poverty. They have always stood up for pensioners.
Flynn says he did not hear a yes. There is a consensus between the Tories and Labour, he says. Who will scrap the triple lock first, the Tories or Labour?
Sunak says the government remains committed to the triple lock. Pensions in Scotland can rely on it because of the triple lock.
9m ago07.15 EDT
Starmer says Sunak was not elected. When will he give people a vote?
Sunak says Starmer has been “locked away with Labour’s union paymasters” this week. Only the Tories are on the side of the public, he claims.
10m ago07.14 EDT
Starmer calls Sunak “inaction man”. He says Suella Braverman has been in post for a year (if you ignore the few days she missed after she resigned). But she has not stopped the boats.
Sunak says the government is taking action to build more homes. Starmer tried to talk the talk on housing. But the…
2023-09-13 06:15:16
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