Starmer says Matthew Doyle ‘did not give full account of his actions’ before he was made peer
Badenoch says Starmer is deluded if he thinks it is the Tory party that is in trouble.
She asks why Matthew Doyle got a peerage.
Starmer says Doyle “did not give a full account of his actions”. He had the whip withdrawn yesterday.
And he changes the subject, and mentions government policies protecting women.
UPDATE: Starmer said:
Matthew Doyle did not give a full account of his actions. I promised my party and my country there will be change, and yesterday I removed the whip from Matthew Doyle.
I’ll tell you what other actions we’ve taken. Along with the safeguarding minister, I and this government have introduced the most far-reaching violence against women and girls strategy, and I’ll tell you what else we’ve done, this government has introduced a pay rise for millions of working class women. What did the leader of the opposition do? She opposed it.
This government is introducing greater protection for women at work. What did the leader of the opposition do? She opposed it, and I’ll tell you what else she opposes, this government removing the disgusting rape clause that they put in place.
Key events
Ayoub Khan (ind) says rubbish is building up “right beneath my very nose”. He is a Birmingham MP, and he is talking about the bin strike. But he has Nigel Farage and the other Reform UK MPs sitting in the row directly in front of him. His joke prompts loud laughted. Richard Tice seems to see the funny side too, but Sarah Pochin looks horribly offended.
Starmer says he hopes the strike gets resolved.
Bob Blackman (Con) asks about the school stabbing in Brent, and asks what the government is doing to remove knife crime.
Starmer thanks Blackman for raising this, and says the government agrees on the need to tackle this.
Tom Tugendhat (Con) says some civil servants are having to take out bridging loans to help them in their retirement.
Starmer says he will look at this.
Daniel Zeichner (Lab) says he agrees with the ambition to make Cambridge the most livable city in Europe. He asks what more the government will do to help this.
Starmer says the government has a growth plan for Cambridge.
James Wild (Con) asks about a foreign offender, sentenced to 10 years in jail for killing three people in a driving incident, who may be released after three years because he is being deported. He says it is wrong for the offender to be released this early.
Starmer says he will look into this.
Preet Kaur Gill (Lab) asks about the Pride in Place programme, and how politics can be a force for good.
Starmer says he has always thought “those with skin in the game make the best decisions about their community”.
Caroline Voaden (Lib Dem) asks if the government will help address the problem of coastal erosion in Devon.
Starmer says Voaden has a meeting with the floods minister on this. The government is investing in flood defences.
Starmer says government considering making CCTV mandatory for nurseries
Munira Wilson (Lib Dem) asks if the government will back mandatory CCTV in nurseries, and mandatory registers for staff.
Starmer says the government is considering whether CCTV should be mandatory in nursery settings.
Douglas McAllister (Lab) says the government’s plans to cut child poverty will help children in Scotland and the UK generally.
Starmer says government policies will help take almost 100,000 children out of poverty in Scotland.
Steve Race (Lab) asks if the deportation of foreign criminals will be sped up. He refers to a case in his constituency of a woman being murdered by someone whose asylum claim had been turned down, but who had not been removed.
Starmer says this was an appalling case. He says he wants more removals.
Rebecca Smith (Con) says SME companies Plymouth working on defence contracts are having difficulty winning contracts because of procurement rules.
Starmer says he will look at this.
Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader at Westminster, says Starmer’s line on Doyle not giving a full account of his actions was similar to his line on Mandelson. He says Starmer must be the most gullible former DPP ever. He asks if the government will publish the guidance given to the Lords appointments commission when it vetted Doyle.
Starmer says a former SNP chief executive is going on trial in nine days’ time.
Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, says MPs should not be discussing live cases.
Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, says that to appoint two friends of paedophiles to the Lords shows catastrophic misjudgment.
Starmer says people have been let down because of austerity, which the Lib Dems supported.
Davey says he “touched a raw nerve”.
The Mandelson scandal shows why a duty of candour is needed. He says the Hillsborough law should be placed on the statute book. Will the PM finally pass that now, ‘“even if it is the last thing he does”.
Starmer says he started working on Hillsborugh issues in 2012, when the Lib Dems were in power. They did not pass this legislation, he says.
Badenoch says Starmer claims he has never lost a fight. But that is because he never enters the ring.
Starmer rattles through a list of how quickly ministers were replaced under the Tories. They were all useless, he says.
Badenoch suggest sleaze will be Starmer’s legacy.
Starmer says his legacy will be changing his party.
He kicked his former leader out of the party. But Badenoch has not done that to Liz Truss, who is now floating “bonkers conspiracy theories”. He says he kicked Truss out of parliament. But Badenoch won’t kick her out of her party.
Badenoch says the revelations about Doyle were in the Sunday Times. She says Starmer refusal to accept responsibility is what a prosecutor would call an established pattern of behaviour.
Starmer hits back referring to Tory scandals, including Priti Patel’s bullying in government and Robert Jenrick complaining about the absence of white faces.
Starmer says Matthew Doyle ‘did not give full account of his actions’ before he was made peer
Badenoch says Starmer is deluded if he thinks it is the Tory party that is in trouble.
She asks why Matthew Doyle got a peerage.
Starmer says Doyle “did not give a full account of his actions”. He had the whip withdrawn yesterday.
And he changes the subject, and mentions government policies protecting women.
UPDATE: Starmer said:
Matthew Doyle did not give a full account of his actions. I promised my party and my country there will be change, and yesterday I removed the whip from Matthew Doyle.
I’ll tell you what other actions we’ve taken. Along with the safeguarding minister, I and this government have introduced the most far-reaching violence against women and girls strategy, and I’ll tell you what else we’ve done, this government has introduced a pay rise for millions of working class women. What did the leader of the opposition do? She opposed it.
This government is introducing greater protection for women at work. What did the leader of the opposition do? She opposed it, and I’ll tell you what else she opposes, this government removing the disgusting rape clause that they put in place.
Badenoch says Starmer said he had full confidence in McSweeney. On Sunday he sacked him, she says. And last week he defended the cabinet secretary. Now he is being sacked too, she says.
Starmer says Badenoch claimed there would be no more defections from her party, and there were. Her party is dying.
