'He [Rishi Sunak] is not stopping the boats and he's letting the country down.'
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak endured a blistering PMQs on Wednesday, fresh from Tory local election humiliation Keir Starmer lambasted Rishi Sunak for being ‘a dodgy salesman’ today as a Tory MP defected to Labour in the wake of disastrous local elections. Dover MP Natalie Elphicke deserting the Tories moments before PMQs today was yet another humiliation for the Prime Minister, after the Conservatives lost more than 500 council seats at last week’s ballot box humiliation.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Starmer opened the session by demanding: ‘If one week a Tory MP, who’s also a doctor, says the Prime Minister can’t be trusted with the NHS and joins Labour, and the next week the Tory MP for Dover, on the front line of the small boats crisis, says the Prime Minister cannot be trusted with our borders and joins Labour, what is the point of this failed government staggering on?’...
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