Tensions erupt in Parliament as Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch challenges Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a fiery PMQs session. Badenoch accuses Labour of failing on policing, healthcare, and education, declaring that “Labour is not working.” Starmer fires back, accusing the Conservatives of leaving behind “an absolute mess,” from the NHS to the criminal justice system, while insisting Labour is delivering improvements, including millions of extra health appointments and rising police recruitment. The heated exchange highlights growing political friction as both parties battle over their records, credibility, and the nation’s direction.
00:00Let's look at someone else who's making a mess. Let's look at the Education Secretary. Oh, there she is.
00:05Labour pledged to recruit
00:086,500 more teachers. So can the Prime Minister tell the House how many extra teachers are there since she became Education Secretary?
00:18More than when they left office.
00:21I'm very proud to say so. We're in upward trajectory.
00:25Oh, Mr. Speaker.
00:27Mr. Speaker.
00:29They left our health service on its knees. They left our schools in a mess.
00:33They left our economy absolutely broken. They should be utterly ashamed of their record in service.
00:40Can the right honourable gentleman tell the House why his own MPs describing him as a caretaker Prime Minister?
00:50Mr. Speaker, my own MPs are very proud. We've just passed a budget which protected our public services
00:55and our NHS, no austerity which brought our NHS to the ground. We've created the condition for economic stability with the headroom we need.
01:05Mr. Speaker, we're concentrating on the single most important issue for families up and down the country, which is the cost of living.
01:12By taking £150 off their energy bills. That's in addition to the £150 for the £6 million of the poorest household.
01:18We're concentrating on what matters to the country. She's trying to save her job.
01:22Mr. Speaker, let me answer the question for the Prime Minister. He's being called a caretaker because everyone can see that he's lost control of his party.
01:35And this lot, this lot, they're all so busy trying to replace him.
01:41Order, order, order.
01:44Sorry.
01:45Can I just say, the same people are making the same noises they made last week.
01:49I did say last week it wasn't the right time. I wouldn't do it this week.
01:52So please, let's not carry on with the way we left it last week.
01:56Can we bear now?
01:58Mr. Speaker, they could make as much noise as they like.
02:00We all know that this lot are so busy trying to replace him that they've taken their eyes off the ball.
02:08Let's start, let's start, Mr. Speaker.
02:11Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.
02:14Let's start with the Energy Secretary who wants to recycle himself as leader.
02:21He said he'd cut families' energy bills by £300.
02:24Can the Prime Minister tell the House how much have energy bills fallen by since the election?
02:32I'm very pleased to say we're taking £150 of energy bills.
02:39I can also tell her that that's on top of the £150 we've taken off last year for the 3 million poorest families,
02:47now for 6 million poorest families.
02:49Mr. Speaker, she talks about leaving.
02:54The problem for us, last week, three ex-...
02:57What?
02:57Mr. May, I've told this side, I'll now tell this side.
03:01We don't need the pantomime auditions anymore, please.
03:04Mr. Speaker, last week I pointed out that three of our ex-MPs went to reform.
03:12That included the former Deputy Chairman, Jonathan Gullis.
03:16He liked to think of himself as a straight talker.
03:18He said they're finished and they've lost the trust of the British people.
03:22In total, Mr. Speaker, 21 ex-Tory MPs have now left for reform.
03:29The real question, Mr. Speaker, is...
03:32The real question is, who's next?
03:37We can all see the Shadow Justice Secretary twitching
03:40after his come-and-get-me plea from the member of Clacton.
03:46Mr. Speaker, we need no lessons from them.
03:48The real question is, Mr. Speaker, I asked him about energy bills.
03:53He could power the national grid on all of that hot air.
03:56He promised to cut energy bills by £300.
04:00Energy bills have risen by £187.
04:06But let's look at someone else who's making a mess.
04:09Let's look at the Education Secretary.
04:10Oh, there she is.
04:11Labour pledged to recruit 6,500 more teachers.
04:17So, can the Prime Minister tell the House how many extra teachers are there since she became Education Secretary?
04:24More than when they left office.
04:28I'm very glad to say so.
04:29We're in upward trajectory.
04:32Oh, Mr. Speaker.
04:33Mr. Speaker.
04:35They left our health service on its knees.
04:38They left our schools in a mess.
04:40They left our economy absolutely broken.
04:42They should be utterly ashamed of their record in service.
04:45Yes!
04:46Mr. Speaker, there are now 400 fewer teachers since she came into office.
05:02She's shaking her head.
05:03It's on the DfE website.
05:05Does she not check it once in a while?
05:06I can understand that the Right Honourable Lady is angry.
05:09We're all angry at the mess she's making.
05:11The Prime Minister doesn't know what's going on in energy.
05:14He doesn't know what's going on in education.
05:16Does he know anything about what's going on in the Home Office?
05:20Last year, the Prime Minister promised to recruit 13,000 more police officers.
05:25How's that going?
05:27Prime Minister.
05:283,000 more by the end of March and we're rising on police numbers.
05:32Mr. Speaker, they left the Home Office.
05:35The criminal justice system is utterly broken.
05:39Sir Brian Leveson has said on that.
05:42They lost control of our borders.
05:44They lost control of every single department.
05:47And she's obviously spent the morning rehearsing for the Liz Truss show.
05:51She's probably going to be the guest star next week.
05:54Both of them talking about how Liz Truss was 100% right.
05:57But what Liz Truss said was the Conservatives need to take...
06:00No, they don't want to hear it.
06:01The Conservatives need to take responsibility.
06:06The Conservatives need to take responsibility for their 14 years of failure.
06:11That was Liz Truss, their former leader.
06:13So perhaps she'll heed that, get up and say sorry.
06:15Wrong again.
06:22I asked him how many police officers.
06:24There are now 1,300 fewer officers than at the election.
06:30So, Mr. Speaker, I don't know if the Home Secretary wants his job,
06:33but I do read that she's having conversations with Tony Blair
06:36because he's already given up on the Prime Minister.
06:39Why don't we talk about the Health Secretary?
06:41Let's see how he's doing.
06:42We do know he definitely wants the job.
06:47He said he'd end the doctor strikes.
06:50So can the Prime Minister tell the House
06:52how many appointments have been lost to strike action since last July?
06:56Mr. Speaker, they left the NHS an absolute mess.
07:01An absolute mess.
07:03With the highest waiting lists on record
07:05and the lowest confidence in the NHS ever.
07:08The Health Secretary said he would do 2 million extra appointments.
07:12He hasn't done 2 or 3 or 4.
07:14He's done 5 million extra appointments.
07:17That is because we invested in the NHS.
07:20What did they do, having broken it?
07:22They voted against that investment.
07:23They should hang their heads in shame.
07:27Mr. Speaker, I asked him how many appointments have been lost to strike action.
07:32He doesn't know.
07:33Let me tell him.
07:34We have lost 93,000 appointments to strikes
07:38since the Health Secretary gave doctors a massive pay rise.
07:42It is...
07:42It is...
07:45It's the truth.
07:46I know they wouldn't know the truth if it punched them in the face,
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