PM attacks Tories who jeered poverty question

PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer has attacked Conservative MPs after they jeered at a question about the impacts of poverty and inequality in the North East.

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Sir Keir was responding to a question posed by Blyth and Ashington MP Ian Lavery at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday.

Mr Lavery - who is a frequent critic of the Government, despite being a Labour MP - highlighted poor life expectancy, low pay and high levels of child poverty in his own constituency and the wider North East.

He blamed some of those factors on the record of the previous Government.

But when Mr Lavery asked: “If the Prime Minister can assure me and the people in my constituency and in the North East if there’s much to look forward to on the horizon?’, there was loud laughter and cheering from the opposition benches.