Tories: Starmer misled the House

It wasn’t Kemi Badenoch’s best day in the House of Commons today. But amid Keir Starmer’s endless demands that the Tory leader ‘do the homework’, the Prime Minister might just have slipped up halfway through the weekly Q&A. Badenoch asked her Labour counterpart about a ruling by an immigration judge which suggests that Palestinian migrants have the right to live in the UK by applying through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees. Starmer replied by insisting that:

She hasn’t quite done her homework because the decision, the decision in question, was taken under the last government, according to the legal framework of the last government

Is that really the case? The decision of the most recent appeal was published 28 January this year – nearly seven months after Keir Starmer took office. Some Starmtroopers argued that he did correct himself in real time – yet to those watching in the House it hardly sounded that way.