PMQs: Starmer and Sunak argue over who has the bigger racism problem

Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions was less about Rishi Sunak and more about the Tories around him. Keir Starmer opened his attack by describing the Conservatives as ‘the political wing of the flat earth society’. He said that ‘Tory MPs spent last week claiming that Britain is run by a shadowy cabal made up of activists, the deep state and most chillingly of all, the Financial Times’.

Starmer’s second question referenced Liz Truss directly, but the first question was clearly designed to take in Lee Anderson’s comments about Sadiq Khan handing control of London to Islamists. His argument on both was that the Tories weren’t serious about governing any more, and Sunak wasn’t strong enough to whip them into shape – or, as Starmer demanded in the case of Truss – remove the whip.

Sunak’s rejoinder was one we hear regularly from both party leaders: your racism/prejudice/general party discipline problem is worse than mine.