Commons Speaker Criticises Keir Starmer For Avoiding Questions

Lindsay Hoyle slapped down Keir Starmer as he gave a long-winded answer during prime minister’s questions.

The Commons Speaker was forced to interrupt the PM as he clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.

Starmer was once again repeating his attack on Badenoch for initially calling on the government to give its full support to Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

He said: “A week later, when she realised she had made a massive error of judgment, she made the mother of all U-turns.

“But that didn’t work, so this weekend she said when I said we should jump into the war, she said she meant verbal support.”

But Hoyle then stood up and told the PM: “It’s prime minister’s questions. We’ve got to concentrate.”

The prime minister has been regularly criticised for dodging questions at PMQs.

Last month, he failed to give a straight answer when asked six times by Badenoch if he had personally spoken to disgraced Labour peer Lord Mandelson before appointing him the UK’s ambassador to Washington.

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