PMQs: Stephen Flynn congratulates Keir Starmer on ending Tory rule
If the boot fits
Laughter in the commons as SNP’s Stephen Flynn congratulates Keir Starmer for “ending Tory rule”, prompting Tory MPs to heckle “and yours!”
The SNP Westminster leader seems to take it in his stride, only to get told off by the speaker for holding up a copy of a Scottish newspaper about the child benefit cap.
“No props!” shouts the speaker, implying it was a red nose or novelty moustache.
Laughter in the commons as SNP’s Stephen Flynn congratulates Keir Starmer for “ending Tory rule”, prompting Tory MPs to heckle “and yours!”
The SNP Westminster leader seems to take it in his stride, only to get told off by the speaker for holding up a copy of a Scottish newspaper about the child benefit cap.
“No props!” shouts the speaker, implying it was a red nose or novelty moustache.
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00:00May I again warmly congratulate the Prime Minister on ending Tory rule.
00:05In his campaign to do so, he was of course joined by Gordon Brown in just five days before
00:29the general election in Scotland. On the front page of the Daily Record, Gordon Brown instructed
00:34voters to vote Labour to end child poverty. Yet last night, Labour MPs from Scotland were
00:40instructed to retain the two-child cap, which forces children into poverty. So, Prime Minister,
00:48what changed?
00:49I am glad he mentioned Gordon Brown, because the last Labour Government lifted millions
00:54of children out of poverty—something we are very proud of. This Government will approach
01:01the question with the same vigour with our new taskforce. Already, we have taken steps
01:06such as breakfast clubs, abolishing no-fault evictions and a decent home standard—
01:11Order. Order. Order. Props are not allowed to be used. Never mind. Put it down. We do
01:16not need any more.
01:18Mr Speaker, already we have set up a taskforce to put that vigour in place—free breakfast
01:25clubs in every primary school, abolishing no-fault eviction, a decent home standard,
01:30AWABS law and a plan to make work pay. But I would just say this. Before he lectures
01:37everyone else, he should explain why, since the SNP came to power, there are 30,000 more
01:43children in poverty in Scotland.