A revved-up Rishi Sunak damned Sir Keir Starmer as “spineless, hopeless and utterly shameless” at PMQs today, as the weekly session erupted into a row about antisemitism and Islamophobia.
Sir Keir hoped to humiliate the Tories over Liz Truss’s recent appearance at CPAC in America, accusing her of “slagging off and undermining Britain at every opportunity” to sell her new book.
He ranted that Ms Truss stayed silent as the “right wing thug” Tommy Robinson was described as a “hero”.
Asked why the PM was allowing Ms Truss to stand as a Tory MP at the election, Mr Sunak erupted at Sir Keir Starmer’s “shamelessness”.
Mr Sunak told MPs: “If he wants to talk about former leaders and predecessors, the whole country knows his record!”
‘He sat there while antisemitism ran rife in his party. And not once but not twice backed a man who called Hamas friends.
“To their credit, the shadow chancellor, the shadow home secretary and shadow foreign secretary refused to back the former Labour leader, but he didn’t because he’s spineless, hopeless and utterly shameless”.
The Commons erupted over this with delighted Tory MPs shouting for “more!”
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