Kemi Badenoch took aim at the Labour Party over their policy to increase fuel duties earlier. She said: “Last week, the Chancellor stood up and said the fuel duty was going to increase in September. The Prime Minister told us at the start of the year that the cost of living was his number one priority, so can he explain how a rise in fuel duty helps with the cost of living?”
Sir Keir Starmer retorted that fuel duty was frozen adding: “It’s going to remain frozen until September and we will keep the situation under review in light of what’s happening in Iran.”
He went on to attack the Conservatives saying: “After nine days of saying, ‘join the war, join the war, join the war’, yesterday, she says ‘I never said we should join, I haven’t said we should go in with the US’.”
He concluded: “I’ll tell you what’s happened, she and the Reform leader have been spooked, because they realise they have jumped into supporting a war without thinking through the consequences, and now she is furiously trying to backpedal.”