RT: @MatthewTorbitt Ordinarily those flanking the leader at #PMQs will nod along with points made. The government front bench just sat silently looking like they were attending a funeral.
They know he’s finished and can’t even muster energy to pretend otherwise.
Donald Trump threatens UK with tariffs over its digital services tax on US tech firms
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Ed Dav asks at #PMQs
"Did he [Starmer] know his office was lobbying for Matthew Doyle, and were they doing it on his authority?
Starmer does not answer the question
Ed Dav "Mr Speaker the House and the country will note the Prime Minister did not answer my question
#Starmer says at #pmqs UK Foreign Office recommended against clearance, and that matter should have been brought to his attention. He spoke of the table with "red flags"
Yesterday, Robbins clearly said we do not make recommendations and said he had never seen such a table after Thornberry showed it to him
Whoops!
#Badenoch misses this, though 🙄
Starmer quoted Chris Wormold at the despatch box during #pmqs
"I remind her [Badenoch] what he said last November in evidence to the House. He said, "When we are making appointments from outside the civil service, the normal thing is for the security clearance to happen after appointments, but before the person signs a contract and takes up post." That is what happened in this case."
'I worked in Keir Starmer's No10 - this is the impact Mandelson scandal will have'
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It is a breach of the Ministerial Code if you do not "correct the record at the earliest possible opportunity"
Keir Starmer tells us he was informed on Tuesday about #Mandelson failing vetting, an assurance he had previously given on the 5th of the previous month, but he was in the House of Commons on Wednesday - at #Pmqs - & made no mention of it. He had an opportunity to correct the record then.
He only mentioned how "absolutely furious he was on Friday after the story broke by The Guardian
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