'Trounced by a PM who lost to a lettuce': Starmer attacks Sunak at first PMQs

Keir Starmer launched an attack on Rishi Sunak at PMQs on Wednesday, pointing out the new prime minister lost the initial Tory leadership race to Liz Truss 'who herself got beaten by a lettuce'.

The Labour leader took advantage of Sunak's first prime minister's questions to confront him on his wealth, on non-dom statuses and on a leaked video that emerged in the summer of Sunak in Tunbridge Wells saying he diverted public money from 'deprived urban areas'. Sunak responded by saying Starmer 'rarely leaves north London', adding that 'if he does, he will know that there are deprived areas in our rural communities, in our coastal communities, and across the south'.

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[gungkrisna]

Parliament is literally a stand up comedy show

[tomward]

I'm glad the Lettuce is getting the publicity it deserves, it was a great campaign.

[rikwallant]

Rishi barely says anything and his party are like

[richards]

Starmer is correct. I saw that video and he took money away from very poor areas to more affluent areas. The line “…lost to a lettuce” was hilarious

[crackonweed]

Sunak literally stood up so confidently then proceeded to answer absolutely nothing from the prior speaker

[tefncjr]

It's bad enough to be the person who lost to a head of lettuce. But to be the person who lost to the person defeated by a head of lettuce is level of humiliation very few will ever witness.

[robburley]

That lettuce line from Starmer had me 😂

[JunctionWatcher]

Spending needs to be paid for… but not by me.

-Rishi Sunak

[steveparker]

A PM who gloats over depriving poor areas and has consistently wasted billions feeding corporate greed...

[SuperHazler]

As an outside observer(Australian), Sunak definitely avoided questions but replied in a confident and animated way. It was all waffle, but it was direct and distracting waffle which made his replies have impact. 100% more effective than Truss but wouldn't hold up to scrutiny if QT allowed it. Interesting how different he behaved verses his address at Downing Street where he sounded like a computer. It seems he is very skilled in deflection which will be disastrous for the UK unless Starmer can pin him down effectively.

[MrBirchieBirch]

Rishy trying to convince people Tunbridge Wells is a deprived rural area...

Shameful.

[dag]

For Tories they sure do like getting publicly owned.

[Soudefiler]

Am I the only one who hasn't lost sight of the fact that Rishi Sunak was Chancellor for the last two or so years and all the current financial chaos is in fact a VERY large part his fault? or is he going to hope no one notices and blames Kwarteng who was in the job for at most a month. Amazing he now wants to hit the country again with austerity when he was only too eager to throw bundles of cash only months before.

[AnEntityBrowsingYT]

I'll never understand how they build such confidence that they can openly be so morally corrupt and convince themselves it was the right thing to do

[qerwerg]

I cannot believe that the lettuce is now such a significant part of Liz Truss' tenure that it is referenced by the leader of the opposition himself

[stevec]

Sunak basically evaded all questions. Not what people look for.

[remigiuszkornas]

I feel like we already need a new pm 😂

[jamilas]

Notice Kemi accidently laugh at Keir's comments on non doms

[reeling-in]

That bloke with the title, Starmer is so funny. He should be a comedian! 😂

[Oj]

I’m astonished the king hasn’t took control at this point