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Starmer says Matthew Doyle 'did not give full account of his actions' before he was made peer
Badenoch says Starmer is deluded if he thinks it is the Tory party that is in trouble.
She asks why Matthew Doyle got a pay rise.
Starmer says Doyle “did not give a full account of his actions”. He had the whip withdrawn yesterday.
And he changes the subject, and mentions government policies protecting women.
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Starmer says government considering making CCTV mandatory for nurseries
Munira Wilson (Lib Dem) asks if the government will back mandatory CCTV in nurseries, and mandatory registers for staff.
Starmer says the government is considering whether CCTV should be mandatory in nursery settings.
Douglas McAllister (Lab) says the government’s plans to cut child poverty will help children in Scotland and the UK generally.
Starmer says government policies will help take almost 100,000 children out of poverty in Scotland.
Steve Race (Lab) asks if the deportation of foreign criminals will be sped up. He refers to a case in his constituency of a woman being murdered by someone whose asylum claim had been turned down, but who had not been removed.
Starmer says this was an appalling case. He says he wants more removals.
Rebecca Smith (Con) says SME companies Plymouth working on defence contracts are having difficulty winning contracts because of procurement rules.
Starmer says he will look at this.
Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader at Westminster, says Starmer’s line on Doyle not giving a full account of his actions was similar to his line on Mandelson. He says Starmer must be the most gullible former DPP ever. He asks if the government will publish the guidance given to the Lords appointments commission when it vetted Doyle.
Starmer says a former SNP chief executive is going on trial in nine days’ time.
Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, says MPs should not be discussing live cases.
Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, says that to appoint two friends of paedophiles to the Lords shows catastrophic misjudgment.
Starmer says people have been let down because of austerity, which the Lib Dems supported.
Davey says he “touched a raw nerve”.
The Mandelson scandal shows why a duty of candour is needed. He says the Hillsborough law should be placed on the statute book. Will the PM finally pass that now, '“even if it is the last thing he does”.
Starmer says he started working on Hillsborugh issues in 2012, when the Lib Dems were in power. They did not pass this legislation, he says.
Badenoch says Starmer claims he has never lost a fight. But that is because he never enters the ring.
Starmer rattles through a list of how quickly ministers were replaced under the Tories. They were all useless, he says.
Badenoch suggest sleaze will be Starmer’s legacy.
Starmer says his legacy will be changing his party.
He kicked his former leader out of the party. But Badenoch has not done that to Liz Truss, who is now floating “bonkers conspiracy theories”. He says he kicked Truss out of parliament. But Badenoch won’t kick her out of her party.
Badenoch says the revelations about Doyle were in the Sunday Times. She says Starmer refusal to accept responsibility is what a prosecutor would call an established pattern of behaviour.
Starmer hits back referring to Tory scandals, including Priti Patel’s bullying in government and Robert Jenrick complaining about the absence of white faces.
Starmer says Matthew Doyle 'did not give full account of his actions' before he was made peer
Badenoch says Starmer is deluded if he thinks it is the Tory party that is in trouble.
She asks why Matthew Doyle got a pay rise.
Starmer says Doyle “did not give a full account of his actions”. He had the whip withdrawn yesterday.
And he changes the subject, and mentions government policies protecting women.
Badenoch says Starmer said he had full confidence in McSweeney. On Sunday he sacked him, she says. And last week he defended the cabinet secretary. Now he is being sacked too, she says.
Starmer says Badenoch claimed there would be no more defections from her party, and there were. Her party is dying.
