Rishi Sunak clashed with Keir Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions and accused the Tory party of ‘12 years of failure followed by 12 weeks of chaos’.
The Labour leader told the Commons: “The failure of the last 12 years and the chaos of the last 12 weeks are compounded by the decisions he is taking now. He won’t follow Labour’s plan to scrap non-dom status. Instead, we have got an NHS staffing crisis.
“He won’t follow Labour’s plans to make oil and gas giants pay their fair share, instead he hammers working people.”
Rishi Sunak replied: “He talks about leadership, this summer I stood on my principles and told the country what they needed to hear even though it was difficult. When he ran for leader, he told his party what they wanted to hear.
“Even now, he says one thing and he does the other. He says he cares for working people, but he won’t stand up to the unions. He said he’d honour Brexit but he tried to have a second referendum, and now he tries to talk tough about immigration but he promised to defend free movement.”
PMQs came after top judges ruled Scotland needs the approval of Westminster to push ahead with next year’s planned second referendum on independence.
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford told the Commons: “This morning the Supreme Court clarified a point of law, that the very point of democracy in this union is now at stake. And democracy will not be denied.
“Because whether Westminster likes it or not, last year the people of Scotland voted for a Scottish Parliament with a majority and the mandate to deliver an independence referendum.”
