Sunak news dwell: Starmer says PM being bullied by party as senior Tories slam Simon Clarke’s ‘foolish’ coup

“I know Simon very well, I like him and respect him. I could not disagree with him more on this particular issue,” the residence secretary stated, defending the prime minister.

Mr Cleverly added that Mr Sunak was succeeding in his efforts to cut back inflation and lower the variety of individuals arriving on small boats.

Rishi Sunak urged shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was liable for branding Labour’s £28 billion inexperienced funding pledge as an albatross “around their neck” after dealing with claims he was being bullied by his personal MPs.

Sir Keir Starmer advised the Commons: “It is not the side lines, it is behind him that the fire is coming in. He can try and blame the Labour Party all he wants, the difference is I have changed my party, he is bullied by his party.

“Has he found the time in his busy schedule to work out why thousands of parents are being told by their nurseries that they won’t get free childcare that he promised them?”

After Sir Lindsay Hoyle referred to as for order from the shouting Labour benches, Mr Sunak stated: “We do know that he is committed to his 2030 decarbonisation promise, which they say will cost £28 billion but I was reading about it this week.

“He says he has changed the party, one of his team called it an albatross hanging around their neck, that might have been the shadow chancellor maybe, but he said they are doubling down on it.

“All this ahead of a crunch meeting we are told this week for them to work out how they are going to pay for it. I can save them some time because we all know the answer, higher taxes for the British people.”

Communities secretary Michael Gove stated higher tier councils can be handed an extra £600m, largely for youngsters’s and grownup social care.

The cupboard minister stated £500m would go on enabling councils to offer “crucial social care services for their local communities, particularly children”.

Adam Forrest, Political Correspondent stories:

Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer stated the prime minister “spouts so much nonsense no wonder they [Tory MPs] are giving up on him”.

He added Rishi Sunak is insisting “everything is fine, people should be grateful to him.

“The trouble is no one is buying it. Does he actually understand why his own MPs say he doesn’t understand Britain and that he is an obstacle to recovery?”

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated: “He calls it nonsense but these are his positions… he chose to represent a now proscribed terrorist group, he chose to campaign against the deportation of foreign national offenders, just like he chose to serve (Jeremy Corbyn).

“That’s his record, those are his values, and that is exactly how he should be judged.”

The chief of the final employees and head of the military, General Sir Patrick Sanders, has given a valedictory deal with during which he describes the present inhabitants of the UK as a “pre-war generation”, and one which should now get able to take “preparatory steps to enable placing our societies on a war footing”.

A “national mobilisation” in opposition to Vladimir Putin’s Russia is the kind of language that will have been unthinkable, if not alarmist or satirical, only some years in the past, however the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and a constantly bellicose stance from the Kremlin has abruptly made such notions mainstream.

The Prime Minister stated it’s Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer who “doesn’t get Britain’s values”.

Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir stated: “The Prime Minister has had quite a week. From endlessly fighting with his own MPs to collapsing in laughter when he was asked by a member of the public about NHS waiting lists.”

After loud protest from the Tory benches, Sir Keir continued: “I love quaint tradition where the more they slag him off behind his back the (louder) they cheer in here.”

He stated Mr Sunak has “accidentally” recorded a “candid video for Nigel Farage”, including: “The only thing missing from that punishing schedule is any sort of governing or leadership. So was he surprised to see one of his own MPs say that he doesn’t get what Britain needs and he’s not listening to what people want?”

Rishi Sunak stated: “He talks about what Britain needs, what Britain wants, what Britain values. This from a man who takes the knee, who wanted to abolish the monarchy, who still doesn’t know what a woman is, and who just this week, one of his frontbenchers, said that they backed teaching divisive white privilege in our schools.

“Looking at his record, it’s crystal clear which one of us doesn’t get Britain’s values.”