Watch stay: Sunak faces Starmer at PMQs as Lee Anderson launches fresh attack

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Watch stay as Rishi Sunak faces Sir Keir Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday 28 February.

The pair go head-to-head for the primary time since Lee Anderson was suspended from the Conservative Party for refusing to apologise over feedback made about Sadiq Khan.

Senior Tories have confronted mounting strain in latest days to explain the previous deputy chairman’s attack on the Mayor of London as “Islamophobic” as the row over his feedback entered its sixth day.

The prime minister and others have condemned Mr Anderson’s feedback, however have up to now shied away from calling them “Islamophobic”.

Their reluctance to make use of the time period has been criticised by Labour as “weak”, with one frontbencher saying the prime minister was “in hock” to “a strange coalition of MPs”.

Mr Sunak may also take questions from MPs for the primary time because the House of Commons descended into chaos final week over a vote a few ceasefire in Gaza – resulting in greater than 80 MPs calling for speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to resign.