March 16, 2022
11:29 am
Prime Ministers Questions
Catch-up
PMQs – PMQs Ends, dirty Russian money in UK
PMQs – No evidence Russia interference in UK elections says PM
“No government doing more to root out corrupt money” – PM
PMQs – PM says more sanctions to come
PMQs – Boris Johnson announces further military support for Ukraine
PMQs Live – PM says he will publish Sue Gray report when he receives it
PMQs Live – Will PM refer ‘party’ to police?
PMQs Live – BREAKING: Photo of PM at Christmas quiz emerges
PMQs ends
This week’s PMQs has ended – the Wednesday’s Commons ended up being overshadowed by the news Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri are being released from Iran after six years.
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BREAKING NEWS – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri have left Iran
Reuters and Iran state media say Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri have both left Iran – en route to Britain after years detained.
Iran's state broadcaster confirms that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori have been "handed over to the British government", suggesting that they are with the British negotiating team at the airport.https://t.co/QxXvd0nvH1 pic.twitter.com/gkfvqWq9R6
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BBC presenter chocks up as she reads the news
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Why is the PM attracted to billionaire oligarchs? – ‘He’s social’ says Raab
Raab is asked by a Labour MP about the PM’s links to prominent Russians and what attracted the PM to billionaire oligarchs?
Raab replies the Prime Minister is “a very social individual.”
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Regarding the orphans – Blackford says the case highlights wider problems with the govt response to the refugee crisis.
Raab says the govt is planning for the arrival of 100,000 Ukrainian children in the UK.
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PMQs Live – Ukraine orphans offered sanctuary in Scotland but Home Office won’t clear paperwork
SNP leader asks for help with Ukraine orphans
Ian Blackford says there are 48 orphans from Ukraine who have been offered sanctuary in Scotland. But the Home Office won’t clear the paperwork. Will Raab intervene?
Raab says the government wants to help. But this is not about bureaucracy. It is about safeguarding, he says.
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Cost of living crisis: gov not helping – Rayner
Rayner talks about the fuel crisis saying the govt is not helping with the cost of living. Rayner mentions the gov has neglected the security of the British people and mentioned the No 10 lockdown parties.
Raab describes the sanctions imposed on Russia and accuses Rayner of just being in a “social media echo chamber.”
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Rayner says Gov had 12 years to sort of the UK’s dependence on foreign oil and the PM is going cap in hand to a dictatorship.
Raab snaps back that whilst Rayner was trying to make Corbyn PM, Boris Johnson was coordinating an international response to the Russian attack in Salisbury, UK.
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Rayner asks if the PM asked security services to revise their assessment of Evgeny Lebedev.
Raab hits back saying Rayner is talking nonsense and she wanted Corbyn to be PM – he favoured pulling out of Nato and abandoning the nuclear deterrent.
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