Ms Powell outlined Parliamentary business for the next two weeks, with Monday March 3 the remaining stages of the Finance Bill, Tuesday 4 all stages of the Church of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) Bill, Wednesday 5 debates on estimates relating to the Department for Health and Social Care, the Foreign Office and the Department for Business and Trade, Thursday 6 proceedings on the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Bill, followed by general debate on International Women’s Day and on a motion on political finance rules, with Private Members Bills on Friday 7.
Ms Powell said her Tory counterpart Jesse Norman failed to say “anything supportive” about Mrs Badenoch after Mr Norman said Sir Keir Starmer was “becoming more Conservative before our eyes”.
Ms Powell told MPs: “It’s another week of business questions, and another week that the shadow leader fails to say anything supportive about his own leader.
The Leader of the House of Commons referred to comments made by Mrs Badenoch last week where she stated that failure to renew the Conservative Party could lead to the loss of “our country and all of Western civilisation”.
The Tories are not “holding the Trump card”, Commons leader Lucy Powell has said as she mocked Kemi Badenoch’s comparisons to the US President.
