Boris Johnson has boasted he "makes no apology" for refusing to sack Priti Patel - as he faced accusations of allowing "one rule for the British public and another for the PM and his friends".
Keir Starmer tore into the Prime Minister for presiding over multiple breaches of ethics rules, including misuse of taxpayers' money, bullying, harassment and leaking.
He challenged Mr Johnson for allowing the Home Secretary to remain in post after a damning report found she had shouted and sworn at officials.
But the Prime Minister praised Ms Patel’s “steely determination” and claimed Labour was just trying to “bash” her.
It comes as Labour released figures showing taxpayer's cash had been wasted on at least 184 million pieces of unusable PPE, after the spending watchdog found health bosses spent an extra £10billion of protective kit due to inadequate supplies at the start of the pandemic.
In a fiery Prime Minister's Questions exchange, Mr Starmer said Government had failed to meet promises the PM made in a foreword to the ministerial code last year.
He demanded to know why ethics adviser Sir Alex Allan had resigned after publishing the report but Ms Patel had not.
Mr Starmer said: “Any other Prime Minister would have fired the Home Secretary and any other Home Secretary would have resigned.”
But Mr Johnson said: “The Home Secretary has apologised for any way in which her conduct falls short.
“And frankly I make no apology for sticking up, for standing by a Home Secretary who is getting on with delivering on the people’s priorities.”
Mr Starmer also urged the Prime Minister to "come clean" on how much money had been wasted on unusable PPE equipment.
He said: "This week, a Cabinet Office response suggests that the Government purchased not 50 million unusable items of protective equipment, but 180 million.
"And a new report this morning by the National Audit Office identifies a further set of orders totalling £214 million for face masks for the NHS that it can't use.
"So will the Prime Minister come clean - how many hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money has been wasted on equipment that can't be used?"
Mr Johnson responded: "Actually, 99.5% of the PPE, the 32 billion items of PPE that this country has secured, conformed entirely to our clinical needs once we checked it."
The Labour leader also criticised leaks from Government that have caused "huge anxiety" to the public and pointed to perceived conflicts of interest after it emerged that suppliers with political connections were 10 times more likely to be awarded Government contracts.
Mr Starmer said: "I think it's a clean sweep - bullying, harassment, leaking, wasting public money and obvious conflicts of interest.
"It's the same old story: one rule for the British public, another for the Prime Minister and his friends."
He accused the PM of "spraying public money on contracts that don't deliver" while failing to offer pay rises to key workers.
"If you've got a hotline to ministers, you get a blank cheque, but if you're on the frontline tackling Covid, you're picking up the bill," he said.
The Prime Minister hit back: "It's this party and this Government that has given key workers, public sector workers above inflation pay rises this year as he knows - for police, for the Army, for nurses who are now getting 12.6% more than they were three years ago.
"And it's this Government that will continue to increasing the living wage."
The exchange came moments before Chancellor Rishi Sunak was due to deliver the Spending Review.
