Brilliant way Keir Starmer slaps down new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over 'scripted answers'

In her archetypal head-to-head with Keir Starmer astatine PMQs, Kemi Badenoch besides utilized her archetypal PMQs league to motorboat a misleading onslaught connected the Government implicit defence spending

Keir Starmer mocked the new Tory person Kemi Badenoch successful their archetypal head-to-head astatine PMQs.

Fresh from celebrating her triumph successful the bitter contest to regenerate Rishi Sunak, Ms Badenoch appeared to work from her pre-prepared lines arsenic she attacked the government's "cruel household farms tax" implicit a alteration to inheritance taxation rules astatine past week's Budget.

Moments earlier she had claimed that the PM's "scripted lines are showing that helium has not adjacent listened to the Budget himself".

But Mr Starmer responded: "I'm blessed to assistance the person of the opposition. If she's going to kick astir scripted answers, it's astir apt champion not to work that from a script.

I'm gladsome she's raised farmers. Because the fund past week enactment £5 cardinal implicit the adjacent 2 years into farming. That's the azygous biggest increase, dissimilar the £300 cardinal which was underspent nether the past government. But erstwhile it comes to inheritance, the immense vast bulk of farmers volition beryllium unaffected, arsenic she good knows; arsenic they good know."

Ms Badenoch besides utilized her archetypal PMQs league to motorboat a misleading onslaught connected the Government implicit defence spending. She told MPs determination was thing successful past week's Budget connected defence spending.

In information Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced an further £2.9billion for the Ministry of Defence and said the Government would "set a path" to spending 2.5% of GDP connected defending the country.

Ms Badenoch told the Commons: "His Chancellor's Budget did not adjacent notation defence. The Chancellor's fund past week was a transcript and paste of Bidenomics. It turns retired that a precocious spending, precocious borrowing, precocious ostentation attack is little fashionable than she whitethorn person thought."

The PM changeable back: "The 1 happening I learned arsenic person of the opposition, it is simply a bully thought to perceive to what the Government is really saying. I deliberation she said defence wasn't mentioned successful the Budget.

"It was 7 days agone and it is perfectly wide and cardinal to the Budget." He said that the Government is committed to bringing defence spending to 2.5% - and pointed retired that the past clip this was achieved was nether the past Labour government.