Keir Starmer to be grilled at PMQs after Southport state 'failings' revealed - live
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Keir Starmer said it was a "disgrace" of the Tories to vote against a Bill with vital safeguards for children. The PM hit back at an attack by Kemi Badenoch over the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which she branded "the worst of socialism". In a tense face-off in the Commons, Mr Starmer also had a savage dig at Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp after he heckled him.
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervened after Mr Philp loudly shouted as the PM was taling about the NHS. Sir Lindsay told him: "Mr Philp I expect better from the front bench and I'm sure you're going to show better.". The PM responded: "He was Liz Truss's right hand man so I'm sure we wouldn't expect anything else.".
Follow live updates below... Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has questioned whether Baroness Casey will have enough time to chair both the social care commission and the inquiry into grooming gangs. Sir Ed said: "Last week, I urged the Prime Minister to speed up the social care commission so we can get the changes people need implemented this year. The very next day it was announced that the chair of the social care commission was also going to chair another important inquiry into grooming gangs.
"So ,the Prime Minister says that the job of chairing the social care commission is so enormous that it's not possible to complete it within three years. Yet, he also says that the chair of that commission, Baroness Casey, has got enough free time over the next few months to chair another inquiry. Can the Prime Minister explain how both these things can be true?".
