July 6, 2022
3:32 pm
Prime Ministers Questions
Catch-up
Sajid Javid delivers brutal resignation speech in Commons
PMQs Live – ‘Pathetic spectacle’ – Brutal PMQs for Boris as more resignations roll in
PMQs Live – 06/07 – PM faces tough questions over Chris Pincher
PMQs live – PM faces grilling after shock resignations
PMQs Live – Scotland wants independence – Blackford
PMQs Live -‘Champagne socialism back in Labour’
PMQs Live – Rayner to face Raab
PMQs Live – No one wants a UK-EU trade war, says PM
Exclusive: Protests outside Parliament during PMQs
As if this week couldn’t get any worse for the PM, he’s been met with protests calling for his resignation just after he faced a brutal PMQs session and a resignation speech from Sajid Javid – the speech was delivered in the Commons following the end of this week’s PMQs session.
More resignations rolling in for the PM
Read Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid resignation letters in full – and the PM’s response
Catch up on PMQs, Sajid Javid’s resignation speech in the Commons and what’s coming up
Re watch this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions.
Watch Sajid Javid will give an address in the Commons following PMQs
3 pm the PM will be in a committee meeting – the number one subject will be integrity.
Catch up on what’s happened over the past 24 hours!
Boris Johnson will not quit MPs at Downing street
But the PM is determined to see these resignations off and scrambling to make his cabinet after losing two heavyweights.
Fuelled by the fact the PM won a vote of confidence in his leadership last month and is safe from another vote for a year unless rules are changed.
Chris Pincher: What we know so far, why the PM’s story keeps changing and media reaction!
MPs at Downing Street for a reshuffle
Following the resignation of Rishis Sunak and Sajid Javid the PM frantically reshuffled the cabinet with Steve Barclay said to be in line for health secretary.
Senior cabinet and ministers have been seen in No 10 this evening, including education secretary Nadhim Zahawi and Lizz Truss as well as other MPs at Downing Street for the reshuffle.
Nadhim Zahawi appointed chancellor
No 10 confirms Nadhim Zahawi appointed the new chancellor and Steve Barclay will be replacing Sajid Javid, becoming the new secretary of state for health and social care.
Michelle Donelan is the new secretary of education, replacing Nadhim Zahawi’s old role.
PMQs Live – Brutal PMQs for Boris as more resignations roll in
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Pincher’s drinking wasn’t the problem, says Conservative MP
Tory MP Gary Sambrook challenges the PM’s comments suggesting MPs should have attempted to intervene to stop Chris Pincher drinking at the club last week.
He says it’s insulting to the victims to suggest that drink was the problem.
Sambrook says the PM constantly tries to deflect from the issue, blame others for his mistakes and should resign. He comments are met with cheers and clapping.
The speaker slams MPs for clapping – ‘it’s not a debating society’
PM says Labour wants him out because otherwise the Tories will win another general election.
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What happened to those new hospitals?
Labour’s Andy Slaughter says the promised new 40 hospitals, the NHS Confederation says none of these will be built by 2024.
“Two of those ‘new’ hospitals, exist in my constituency, Hammersmith, opened in 1902, and Charing Cross, opened in 1818. They’re not new hospitals, and there’s no building going on,” he says.
“They exist only in his warped imagination.”
PM says the government has managed to get 13,500 more police officers on the street and the new hospitals wil be built by 2030.
“We’re putting the funding into our NHS,” he adds.
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Tory asks is there any circumstances in which the PM will resign?
Tory MP Tim Loughton asks if there are any circumstances the PM should resign in.
In response, the PM says “clearly” if there was circumstances where he felt the government couldn’t carry on with the mandate it’s been given or would not be able to support Ukraine he would.
Johnson insists he has a “colossal majority” and he will keep going
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PM it’s over – Ian Blackford
Ian Blackford says it’s easy to forget that only 10 days ago the PM was talking about a third term. He says it’s a miracle the PM even made it to PMQs – adding: “Prime minister it really is over.”
He asks how many more ministers need to quit before the PM writes his own resignation letter.
The PM says the economy is the great issue the country faces and the govt is helping families up and down the country with £1,200 right now, tax cuts for 30m and helping half a million people into work, he says, and that is the priority of his government.
“I’m glad he likes it,” he says – in reference to Blackford.
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‘Pathetic spectacle’
Starmer calls on the PM’s government to have “some respect” and says they have for the past week been defending the PM’s decision to promote a “sexual predator” – referring to Chris Pincher being appointed to deputy chief whip.
Starmer points to a number of the PM’s claims over the handling of the situation and says they have proven to be untrue.
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PM says Starmer should “hear what his lot say about him.”
He says Starmer wanted to put Jeremy Corbyn in power.
“He voted 48 times to overturn the will of the British people,” to overturn the referendum results, he states.
“He has voted time and time again against sanctions on criminals that would put them behind bars,” he adds.
