37 h. ago Coatbridge MP Frank McNally highlights dire financial plight of Albion Rovers FC at Prime Minister's Questions

Sir Keir Starmer encourages "all efforts to secure the future of the club" in response.

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6 d. ago Watch live: Keir Starmer faces PMQs ahead of Rachel Reeves’ spring statement with further cuts

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer faces Prime Minister’s Questions before Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement on the state of the UK economy on Wednesday, 26 March.

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1 week ago Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage ‘can’t even lead a party that fits in the back of a taxi’

Sir Keir Starmer hit out at Nigel Farage during Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, saying he "can't even lead a party that fits in the back of a taxi".

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1 week ago Keir Starmer rejects Tory demand to exempt hospices from 'jobs tax' rise in PMQs clash with Kemi Badenoch ahead of vote TODAY

The Tory leader dedicated Prime Minister's Questions to attacking the rise in NICs made by employers, which is due to come into effect next month.

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1 week ago PMQs live: Kemi Badenoch challenges Keir Starmer over taxes and ‘emergency budget’ before next week’s spring statement

Prime minister takes questions in Commons after decision to slash disability paymentsLast night, to back up its analysis of the disability cuts, the Institute for Fiscal Studies published two charts illustrating aspects of the changes.This one shows how the £5bn cuts announced yesterday compare in scale to previous benefit cuts, listed here in order of how big they were, in current prices. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Coatbridge MP Frank McNally guest speaker at town's Citizens Advice Bureau's annual general meeting

Bureau provided advice on more than 12,400 occasions to people in the town in the past year.

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2 w. ago Starmer hits out after being interrupted during NHS racism speech: ‘You’ve let yourself down’

Sir Keir Starmer hit out at a member of Parliament who interrupted his speech on reported discrimination within the NHS during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 12 March.

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2 w. ago Watch live: Starmer faces Badenoch at PMQs after Trump announces global tariff blow

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) today (12 March) after Donald Trump imposed global tariffs on steel and aluminium.

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3 w. ago After 80 years of transatlantic ties, Europe forges a new alliance

Germany, France and UK sweep away old rules in pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ to defend Europe from Russian threatWhen he rose to his feet at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Keir Starmer delivered a stirring tribute to six British soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan 13 years ago.He read out their names very deliberately, one by one. The House was silent. The prime minister then added a tribute to a 22-year-old British Royal Marine, also killed on 6 March, but in 2007 in Helmand province. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Starmer accused of lying by Tory frontbencher during Prime Minister’s Questions

Victoria Atkins could be heard shouting ‘that is a lie’ following a question on the Government’s policy to charge VAT on private school fees.

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3 w. ago Video: Keir Starmer makes dig at JD Vance in tribute to British soldiers after controversial war comments

Sir Keir Starmer opened Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 5 March — his first since Donald Trump’s explosive meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky — with a dig at JD Vance by paying tribute to the hundreds of British soldiers who died in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer takes swipe at JD Vance with tribute to UK troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan saying 'we'll never forget their bravery' after Trump VP's jibe

Sir Keir used Prime Minister's Questions to mark the anniversaries this week of two incidents in Afghanistan 13 and 18 years ago in which UK troops were killed.

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3 w. ago Watch in full: Starmer grilled in parliament in first PMQs since Trump and Zelensky’s chaotic meeting

Sir Keir Starmer faced his first Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 5 March, since his visit to the United States and the explosive meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

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3 w. ago Watch live: Starmer grilled in parliament in first PMQs since Trump and Zelensky’s chaotic meeting

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer faces his first Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 5 March, his first since his visit to the United States and the explosive meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

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3 w. ago Row erupts in New Zealand parliament over use of Māori name Aotearoa

Dispute emerges after deputy prime minister Winston Peters questioned why MPs used the name Aotearoa in debatesThe speaker of New Zealand’s parliament has told lawmakers to stop complaining about the use of the Māori name for the country, after the deputy prime minister strongly objected to hearing it in the house.In a ruling on Tuesday, Gerry Brownlee said that while “New Zealand” is the official name, the Māori name “Aotearoa” is used widely, including on currency and passports. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Keir Starmer mocks Stephen Flynn as a 'keyboard warrior' after Ukraine and Trump comments

The Prime Minister was responding to a question from Labour MP Gregor Poynton, who said the Nationalist's social media posts were "juvenile and childish".

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