PMQs LIVE – End of the union? calls for indyref2 & general election
Satire is dead: Tory MPs applauding the PM they dumped.
That picture should be on every Labour election leaflet.#PMQs
— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) July 20, 2022
Do you want to know what makes Lindsay Hoyle angry? Other MPs holding the Conservatives accountable. He’s responsible for enabling Johnson’s reign of terror.#PMQs
— Supertanskiii (@supertanskiii) July 13, 2022
Windrush justice
Labour’s Kate Osamor says the Windrush compensation scheme has seen just one in 4 applicants receive their compensation and at least 28 have died.
She asks if its time the government made the scheme was made independent of the Home Office and to provide justice before it’s too late.
The PM renews his apologies to the Windrush generation for what they have suffered.
“We have greatly increased the compensation available,” he says, adding that more than £51m has been paid out and the government is working with voluntary groups to ensure everyone gets what they’re entitled to.
He says Labour has never apologised for its role in the Windrush scandal.
Lib Dems call for general election
Lib Dem Sir Ed Davey says the candidates in the Tory leadership race promise to bring a fresh start but asks if a clean break should require “a new mandate from the British people” in a general election.
PM says if there was a gen election the Lib Dems will be thrashed and the Tories must prevent a “crackpot coalition” between Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP which the Conservatives “must prevent”.
PM breaks up union, Blackford calls for indyref2
Ian Blackford: "As well as a record breaker, the PM is a rule breaker. Illegally shutting down parliament, partying through the pandemic, handing out PPE contracts to cronies, unilaterally changing the ministerial code…Downing Street is no place for a law breaker" #PMQs
— Edward Hardy (@EdwardTHardy) July 20, 2022
Ian Blackford lists PM’s “record-breaking efforts in office”
- Tory Brexit cutting £31bn from the economy
- Biggest fall in living standards since the 1970s
- Pay falling
- Worst economic growth forecast in the G20 (outside Russia) and highest inflation in 40 years.
The SNP leader asks if this has “paved the way” for Scottish independence and the end of the union?
PM responds to Blackford by listing what he says is his achievements – vaccine rollout, low unemployment and fastest growth in the G7.
PM attacks SNP’s record in Scotland, referring to drug addiction numbers in the country.