'This comprehensive schoolboy is not going to take any lectures from the party opposite about the lives of working people,' says the deputy PM after Angela Rayner said the Tories have 'taken a wrecking ball' to Labour measures 'to eradicate child poverty'
Labour MP asks why ministers have 'yet again broken a promise to leaseholders'
"I was concerned to read last week that the PM had to be airlifted to a pharmacy in Southampton after suffering electoral dysfunction," jokes Labour's Matt Western. Ms Rayner says it's a pleasure to welcome yet another deputy PM to the dispatch box, her third in three years. Both sides laugh as she quips"third time's a charm".
This follows the Labour leader'[s refusal to rule out a coalition with the Lib Dems if the party, as projected, doesn't secure an overall majority.The Tory backbenchers are delighted to see Mr Dowden on the attack. Labour are not laughing. Rayner says government has 'taken a wrecking ball' to anti-poverty measures and is 'stuck in a conveyer belt of crisis'
He says the Tory government introduced record increases to the living wage and claims the government has taken one million people out of poverty.Ms Rayner replies:"Under the Tories, child poverty is nearly back to the level it was when Labour last inherited the Tory mess.
But Ms Rayner says waiting lists were going up before the pandemic and accuses the government of"blaming everybody but themselves". She asked her counterpart:"After 1,000 more Conservative councillors were given the boot by voters, who does he think is responsible now?" Things quickly become more serious when Cat Smith asks the deputy PM when the 40 new hospitals the Conservatives pledged in their manifesto will be built.Now to Craig Mackinglay, who raised concerns over counterfeit Chinese postage stamps he says are being sold on Amazon.But he says the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill will"put duties on those platforms" and if fraud is being carried out"the police should take action".
With the prime minister en route to Japan for the G7, today's PMQs will be a head-to-head between the two party deputies - Oliver Dowden and Angela Rayner.
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