PMQs: Starmer presses Sunak on tax rises, non-dom status and wages falling by £1,600

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has quizzed Rishi Sunak over fiscal responsibility at Prime Minister's Questions, asking how his actions were going for working people - as real wages fell by £1,600 a year per household.

Mr Starmer said the government was running a "low growth, high tax economy", and accused the PM of living "in his own bubble" of wealth and privilege.

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[davidwebb]

It should be illegal for a prime minister to not answer the question at Prime Minister's Questions.

[leeandrew]

I wish I lived in the version of The Uk the Rishi talks about instead of The Uk that Rishi is actually “leading”.

[brentsanders]

They should just rename it Prime Ministers question dodging.
Politicians answering questions they have asked themselves in their own head instead of the one put to them is very frustrating.

[gregpenna]

Rushi Sunak is untouched by the pains of the person out there

[Buddhavibez]

Whoever thought that a man, with no knowledge of working class life, let alone any working class friends, should run a whole country 😂😂😂😂

[naimulislam]

This is the first time i think Starmer got sunak.

He was brilliant.

[justinbaker]

Sunak reminds me of Will from The Inbetweeners.

[dieuly]

What a circus. No wonder UK is not moving forward

[tg]

Would Starmer really be any better? One gets the impression that his solution would be higher government spending, more in work benefits etc which would just drive the inflation

[tommclovin]

How are they getting away with jail time?

[judtindouglas]

It's boring seeing all this talk and no action. Its like when you had arguments in primary school and the speaker is the teacher

[twistedsister]

I’m a working person and I’m not being supported at all. As a single woman working full time, I get no help from anywhere and I’m scraping through. Yet my colleague who works part time takes home more than I do because of her top up benefits and now she is getting the £900 cost of living payment. Makes me sick how people choose not to work or work the minimum then claim benefits on top, this government needs to make people get in full time work

[steveknott]

Who does he think is protesting and picketing if not working people .And for them to try and blame a party that has been out of power for a decade and a half is low

[richardjames]

Does Rishi Sunak not think then the striker’s are ordinary working people taking desperate action in order to attempt to be treated fairly as they struggle to make ends meet whilst he is so stinking rich he has too much money to see him through his lifetime?

[uncle_monty]

It's embarrassing listening to a man whose net worth is variously estimated at £730 million say that giving single mothers working full time on the minimum wage around £100 per month more is 'delivering' ...

[TazBo-wdig]

Starmer still sounds like ZIPPY from Rainbow

[dedoc]

It's always amazing that Sunak praises the efforts of the government to raise the national income by 6% but the national average outgoings have increased by over 20%. That means we're about 15% worse off.. That's not good.

[denn]

Sir Keir Starmer leads Labour very well.His team are right behind him and are able PM Sunak seems a tad unfocused particularly after losing his deputy.

[esseker]

Rishi comes out with the same false crap every week.

[floatingpeaks]

Sunak with the great Tory con every week. Talks about what they have given but not what they have taken which is much more. So everyone is worse off.

People arent stupid, I'm on the threshold of upper middle class/ rich and my living standard has decreased.

Can only imagine what the working class and the people living in poverty are going through. Will be a big defeat for the Tories in the next general election.

Labour arent the answer though. My vote will be going to the lib dems. I rather have a fair society or attempt to.