Keir Starmer says last week Sunak had to correct the record on employment numbers. Can he provide an update now 1,000 Tory councillors have lost their jobs?
Sunak quotes Tony Blair, saying Starmer can be as cocky as he likes about the local elections, but at general elections policy counts. Starmer does not have any, he says.
Key events
Caroline Lucas, the Green MP, says Sunak has said his daughter is the climate change champion in his house. What does she think of the proposed Rosebank development? Will he approve it?
Sunak says, while the UK is transitioning, it makes no sense not to exploit oil and gas in the UK, and to import supplies instead. That is economically illiterate, he says.
Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, says last week many Tory voters turned to the Lib Dems to be their champions. They want clean water. He says water bosses have been given bonuses. But three of them have turned down those bonuses. Will the PM stop all water industry bonuses?
Sunak says he could not hear the whole question, but he says it does not matter. The Lib Dems say one thing in one place, and another in another. No wonder he likes Starmer.
Political opportunism and a broken promise on tuition fees – it must be like looking in the mirror.
Simon Fell (Con) asks about the Aukus submarine programme, and the contribution from Barrow.
Sunak says the programme will create thousands of new jobs.
Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader, says, if Sunak were to go to his Land Rover and pull out placards saying “Save our non-doms”, would he expect to be arrested?
Sunak says he supports the police having these powers. Flynn is opposed. But what does Starmer think?
Flynn says workers who go on strike hold protests. They do so because it is a fundamental right. Is the PM really saying people can only have these rights on his terms?
Sunak says people should have the right to go about their ordinary lives without being disrupted.
Starmer says Sunak is pretending the country is doing fine, while he has given it 24 tax rises. He says the Tories are not the solution, but the problem.
Sunak says we all say silly things when we are young. (He is referring to his quote, as a student, about not having working class friends.) But Starmer favoured abolishing the monarchy in his 40s. He says, while Starmer is plotting coalitions, the Tories are getting on with delivering for the people.
Starmer says Sunak must have met some working people recently. Did any of them back protecting non-dom status?
Sunak says Alistair Darling, the former Labour chancellor, recently said Labour’s plans would discourage people from coming to the UK.
Starmer says Labour would give every council the grant it needs to freeze council tax, funded by a windfall tax.
Sunak says the “coffers were totally empty” when Labour left office. They wanted a longer lockdown. And now they back unions on strike. Even in opposition they are damaging the economy, he says.
Starmer urges Sunak to freeze council tax bills.
Sunak says we will see if new Labour councils do that. The shadow chancellor recently said she had to explain “where the money is going to come from”. With a £90bn black hole in their plans, she has a lot of work to do, he says.
Starmer says Sunak has only lost two things in his life – a beauty contest with Liz Truss last year, before Truss lost to a lettuce, and then the locals.
Sunak says Starmer keeps performing U-turns. He is not just Sir Softy, he is flaky too.
Keir Starmer says last week Sunak had to correct the record on employment numbers. Can he provide an update now 1,000 Tory councillors have lost their jobs?
Sunak quotes Tony Blair, saying Starmer can be as cocky as he likes about the local elections, but at general elections policy counts. Starmer does not have any, he says.
Gagan Mohindra (Con) asks Sunak to condemn the plans to extend the Ulez zone in London.
Sunak says he opposes this. But Keir Starmer backs what the Labour mayor of London is doing, he says.
Clive Lewis (Lab) asks about a constituent who had to pull out 18 of his own teeth. Does the PM agree the situation will only approve when this rotten government is replaced.
Sunak says he is sorry to hear about the case. He says there are 500 more NHS dentists.
