PM blasts 'unserious' Kemi after criticism over summits

SIR Keir Starmer has criticised Kemi Badenoch as “unserious” after she claimed his attendance at the G7 and Nato summits helped him avoid Prime Minister's Questions.

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The Prime Minister hit back against Mrs Badenoch’s dismissal of him as “irrelevant” on the global stage as she launched a barbed attack on Sir Keir while he gave a statement on the two international events to the Commons. Her tone was rebuked by one of her own backbenchers, who admitted he could have the whip withdrawn for his criticism.

Mrs Badenoch had said: “He has evaded Prime Minister's Questions for two weeks, only to come here to tell us what we already heard on the news. This is a weak statement from a weak Prime Minister which can be characterised in two words; ‘noises off.”