23 minutes ago
Rishi Sunak has stated that he will not be returning a £15,000 donation from Frank Hester, which covered the cost of a helicopter flight.
1 hour ago
Rishi Sunak is facing Keir Starmer at PMQs.
1 hour ago
Labour has expressed concerns about the Home Office’s proposal to pay failed asylum seekers to go to Rwanda, indicating that the current plan won’t work.
Business minister Nusrat Ghani has emphasized that zero tolerance of racism should be more than just a slogan.
2 hours ago
There are hopes of the UK exiting from recession as GDP rises in January.
2 hours ago
A Labour MP has challenged Street to disclose if he indirectly received funding from Hester and, if so, if he will return it.
2 hours ago
Tory West Midlands mayor Andy Street has stated that he would ‘think about the company I kept’ and not take money from Hester.
2 hours ago
A minister has indicated that Tories would be willing to accept more donations from Hester ‘on the basis we don’t think he’s racist.’
3 hours ago
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have warned that a new extremism definition could cause more ‘division.’
3 hours ago
Labour has criticized No 10 for taking too long to address Hester’s racist comments.
A minister has stated that returning Hester donations ‘is not the right thing to do.’
Key events (11)
Rishi Sunak (23)
Frank Hester (12)
Diane Abbott (7)
Keir Starmer (7)
Lee Anderson (3)
4 minutes ago
Diana Abbott was trying to “catch the speaker’s eye” during PMQs. She was not on the list to ask a question, but the speaker, Sir Lindsay Houle, routinely takes questions from MPs who aren’t on the list, and a lot of commentators on X are criticising him for this.
These are from Adam Payne at PoliticsHome.
MPs look and sound confused by Lindsay Hoyle’s decision to not call Diane Abbott for a question
Abbott was visibly frustrated to not get a question. Starmer and Flynn went to speak to her after PMQs finished
8 minutes ago
When Lee Anderson defected to Reform UK on Monday, he said what persuaded him to join another party was George Galloway winning the Rochdale byelection. But now they are sitting alongside each other on the opposition benches.
MPs from the two newest parties in the Commons at today’s PMQs
13 minutes ago
Mark Francois (Con) asks Sunak to assure him that he is not making the same mistake made by Neville Chamberlain in the 1930s, when defence spending was restricted until it was too late.
Sunak tells Francois he agrees with the point he is making.
The world that we’re living in is becoming both more challenging, strategically, and more dangerous. And in response to those challenges. We must invest more in our armed forces.
And that’s the end of PMQs.
18 minutes ago
Rachael Maskell (Lab) asks about the situation in Gaza. The PM’s plan is not working. Will he change tack and push for a bilateral ceasefire?
Sunak says the government is incredibly concerned about the situation in Gaza. The UK is playing a leading role in…
2024-03-13 07:33:20
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