{"id":802321,"date":"2026-10-14T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802321\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:42:11","slug":"pmqs-live-kemi-badenoch-presses-andy-burnham-on-benefits-and-brexit-vote-claims-at-pmqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802321\/","title":{"rendered":"PMQs live: Kemi Badenoch presses Andy Burnham on benefits and Brexit vote claims at PMQs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Burnham says he is facing up to difficult decisionspublished at 12:29 BST<\/p>\n

12:29 BST<\/p>\n

On the budget, Badenoch says she met a beauty salon owner who is struggling with the Labour government’s tax rises, saying she is “dipping into her pension to pay the young people she employs”. <\/p>\n

Badenoch asks whether Burnham is “too busy appeasing his MPs, excusing his own mistakes and avoiding difficult decisions to give the country the leadership it needs”.<\/p>\n

Burnham says he used his Labour party conference speech to face up to difficult decisions, including adjusting the triple lock<\/a> to fund the new national care service.<\/p>\n

Before bringing his exchange with Badenoch to an end, Burnham commends Badenoch for what she said during her party conference speech, when she drew a line with Reform UK for suggesting that her children “weren’t British”.<\/p>\n

“That [what Reform said] is wrong in every single respect, she was brave and she was right to call it out, that’s what I want to see more of in the next decade as we go forward”.<\/p>\n

For context: In her Tory conference speech<\/a> Badenoch expressed anger at Reform MP Suella Braverman’s argument that, given her Asian heritage, she believed herself to be British but not English. Badenoch said as the mother of mixed-race children “I don’t want to explain to my son, when we’re watching our brilliant England team play football, that some people don’t think our black players are English”.<\/p>\n

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