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Rishi Sunak faced off against Sir Keir Starmer in the first PMQs since the Elphicke’s defection last week.
The Prime Minister was branded by Starmer a “jumped up-milk monitor” obsessed with “confiscating lanyards”.
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn accused the Sunak of comparing Scottish people to war criminal Vladimir Putin.
PMQs came amid a fresh crackdown on culture war issues, with a ban to be introduced on children under nine being taught sex education and about gender identity.
Policing minister Chris Philp said the new measures are expected to come into force soon.
The guidance is part of the Government’s bid to tackle concerns that some children are receiving age-inappropriate relationships, sex and health education (RSHE).
Speaking today, Mr Philp also called on police forces to increase the use of stop and search as part to tougher measures to tackle knife crime.
Key Points
- Starmer brand Sunak a ‘jumped-up milk monitor’ for ‘confiscating lanyards’
- Rishi Sunak pressured over arms sales to Israel
- Sex education to be scrapped for under 9s
- Stop and search to be ramped up
- SNP leader accuses PM of comparing Scottish people to Putin
Watch: Labour MPs jeering as all Tories take their seats without any defections
In full: SNP leader accuses PM of comparing Scottish people to Putin
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said: “Let’s be clear, what the Prime Minister did was not just equate my colleagues and I to despotic and dangerous despots across the world.
“He proactively compared almost half of his Scottish population with a war criminal like Vladimir Putin, and he did so as their Prime Minister – as the man who represents them on the world stage, and the man who on these isles, is tasked with defending their liberties and their democracy.
“We know that his sorry time in office is rapidly coming to a conclusion. Is this really how he wants to be remembered?”
To which Mr Sunak replied: “As ever, distracting from the actual record of what the SNP are doing in Scotland, and this obsession with independence means that Scottish schoolchildren are being let down, plummeting down international league tables.”
That concludes today’s PMQs
In case you’ve missed it, here are the top lines from the session:
- There have been no defections despite Tories’ fears.
- Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Rishi Sunak of being a ‘jumped-up milk monitor’ over rainbow lanyard ban.
- Labour MPs have called Government to end arm sells to Israel amid Gaza horrors.
- Prime Minister has vowed to reform the parole system following Colin Pitchfork hearing.
Sunak accused of being a bystander to horror in Gaza
Labour MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan accuses the PM of allowing Israel’s killing in Gaza.
She says: “Israel has killed thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians as the world watches, trampling all over international humanitarian law.”
She adds: “No other country would be allowed to act with such impunity.”
She asks the PM “hhy he allows Israel to get away with it unchallenged, and why he continues to act as a bystander to such horror”.
Rishi Sunak answers: “She can rest assured that we, on this side of the House, will continue to do everything we can to get support to people in Gaza who need it,” he concludes.
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Labour MP Nadia Witthome accuses the Government of decriminalising rape.
The Prime Minister claims “domestic violence against women and girls is now a strategic policing requirement.”
Salma Ouaguira15 May 2024 12:37 1715772782Watch: Keir Starmer pokes fun at Esther McVey’s ‘vital crackdown’ on rainbow lanyards
Compensation for women’s state pension
Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey asks PM about Waspi women.
In March, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report ruled that some women born in the 1950s were not adequately informed of changes.
The Government has been accused of dragging its feet over concerns surrounding women affected by changes to the state pension age.
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Salma Ouaguira15 May 2024 12:30 1715772427In full: Rishi Sunak pressured over arms sales to Israel
Rishi Sunak has been asked what it would take for the UK to suspend the sale of arms to Israel.
Labour MP Richard Burgon said 30,000 Palestinian deaths were not enough to move the PM to suspend arms sales. He said the killing of British aid workers was not enough, and the likely all-out assault on Rafah also appeared not to be enough.
Mr Burgon said: “What on earth would be enough to finally move this prime minister into the same position as the majority of the British public and end arms sales to Israel?”
Mr Sunak said the British government does not directly sell arms to Israel and that the UK regularly reviews its legal advice to ensure compliance with international law.
Andre Langlois15 May 2024 12:27 1715772368Colin Pitchfork horrors
Conservative MP Alberto Costa asks the PM to reconsider MoJ system after Colin Pitchfork’s win over release hearing.
Rishi Sunak says: “We are reforming the parole system to add a ministerial check on the release of the most dangerous criminals.”
He says he is also “changing the law so that for the most depraved killers - life means life”.
Labour MP Richard Burgon urges to end Israeli arm sells
Mr Burgon sasks: “What on earth would be enough to end arm sells to Israel.”
The Prime Minister answers: “The UK gov doesn’t directly sell arms to Israel unlike the US.”
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