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Rishi Sunak grilled at PMQs for boasting about withdrawing funding from disadvantaged city areas

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was grilled at PMQs at the moment for boasting about withdrawing funding from disadvantaged city areas and transferring it to rich cities as an alternative.

Sunak, who made historical past by turning into the primary South Asian Prime Minister, endured a tricky debut look at PMQs, the place he was additionally requested in regards to the reappointment of Suella Braverman days after she was sacked for breaching the ministerial code and on non-dom statuses.

Starmer kicked off PMQs by congratulating Sunak on making historical past and turning into the primary British-Asian PM, including: “Britain is a spot the place individuals of all races and all beliefs can fulfil their desires.”

He then turned to Sunak’s judgement, asking why having pledged to be a first-rate minister of integrity, he had reappointed Braverman who was sacked for breaching the ministerial code. He mentioned: “Together with his first act, he appointed a house secretary who was sacked by his predecessor per week in the past for intentionally pinging round delicate House Workplace paperwork from her private account.”

Starmer requested if officers had raised issues earlier than her reappointment to which Sunak referred again to his earlier reply, saying that the house secretary ‘made an error of judgment however she recognised that she raised the matter and she or he accepted her mistake’.

The Labour chief mentioned Sunak had carried out a ‘grubby deal’ as a result of he was scared to lose one other management election.

A video through which Sunak was filmed boasting about how he eliminated funding from disadvantaged city areas and transferred it to rich cities was made the subject of one other query from Starmer who known as on Sunak to now undo the formulation.

“Fairly than apologise or faux he meant one thing else, why doesn’t he do the precise factor and undo the modifications he made to these funding formulation?”

Starmer additionally took Sunak to job for failing to abolish non-dom statuses that enable the rich to keep away from tax. He instructed Sunak: “I don’t want to inform the Prime Minister how non-dom standing works, he is aware of all about that. It prices the treasury £3.2bn a 12 months. Why doesn’t he do away with it?”

The one reply Sunak needed to that one was await the chancellor’s fiscal assertion.

Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead

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