PMQs: Sunak challenges Starmer on ‘out of date’ NHS plans
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Rishi Sunak delivered a scathing attack on Keir Starmer, accusing him of playing “political games” after the Labour leader accused him of always blaming others for the NHS crisis. In a major rebuke of the Labour leader, the Prime Minister blasted Sir Keir for performing a U-turn on his promise to hold another Brexit referendum. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons,Mr Sunak accused Mr Starmer of breaking all the Labour key pledged and only stick with promises that “suit them”.
Mr Sunak said: “They’ll just say anything if the politics suits them … He’ll break promises left, right and centre.
“He promised to nationalise public services, he promised to have a second referendum, he promise to defend the mass migration of the EU.”
As Tory MPs cheered him, the Prime Minister continued: “Mr Speaker, if we are going to deliver for the British people, people need to have strong convictions.
“But when it comes to the Honourable Gentleman, he isn’t just for the free movement of people, he’s also got the free movement of principles.”
The Labour leader has come under fire for changing his mind on Brexit as he pledged to make Brexit work in an apparent reversal of his EU pledge. In the aftermath of the 2016 Brexit referendum, Mr Starmer had pledged to hold a second referendum on the UK’s exit from the European Union but later changed course, saying that Britain now had to live outside the bloc.
Asked if he was “shifting” his message to appeal to swing voters who backed Brexit, he told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “No, Sophy – I’ve long reflected on that referendum.
“Sitting beyond that [2016 referendum] there was a very powerful emotional case for change, which I don’t think most remain voters would argue with, I certainly didn’t. The other side of Brexit is delivering the change needed in this country.”
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