Watch: Starmer defers to ‘prime minister’ Sunak at PMQs

They say old habits die hard, and Sir Keir Starmer is finding that out for himself today. It’s the first PMQs back after recess and it seems as though some in the Commons are rather struggling to adjust to the change of guard. Mr S notes that the Labour leader has today referred to his opposite number Rishi Sunak multiple times as, er, ‘prime minister’. The Speaker of the House, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has also been caught making the same rather impertinent mistake. Talk about a slip of the tongue…

And it hasn’t taken long for the Tories to use the PM’s blunder to their advantage. Just minutes after Sir Keir misspoke, the Conservatives’ Twitter account took to social media to taunt him over Labour’s pensioner palaver, writing: ‘You may keep forgetting you’re the Prime Minister Keir Starmer, but the British people don’t. It’s your choice to deprive vulnerable pensioners of their winter fuel payments.