At Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon Sir Keir Starmer was questioned by the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch. During their exchange, Badenoch called on the prime minister to resign, “If he wants to know what Conservatives would do he should resign and find out “. Badenoch also made reference to a current online petition calling for a general election. Starmer responded by saying that there was a "massive petition on the 4th of July".
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00:00Mr. Speaker, if he wants to know what Conservatives would do, he should resign and find out.
00:04Mr. Speaker, he's not fixing any foundations, he's making everything worse.
00:10The whole House would have heard him refuse to repeat the Chancellor's pledge,
00:17a pledge as worthless as the manifesto promises that he's talking about.
00:22If he is fixing foundations, why is it that the PMI index shows that business confidence
00:27has crashed since the Budget?
00:30Mr. Speaker, we're fixing the foundations, we've got record investment into this country.
00:36She talks about tax rises. Mr. Speaker, two weeks ago she stood there and said that she
00:42wanted all the investment, all the benefits of the Budget, but she didn't know how she
00:47was going to pay for it. I noticed that having come here criticising the national insurance
00:52rises over and over again. On Monday, she admitted that she wouldn't reverse the position
00:57that was set out. Meanwhile, her science minister was saying he was going energetically to do
01:04the opposite. They really haven't got a clue what they're doing.
01:09Mr. Speaker, if he wants to know what Conservatives would do, he should resign and find out.
01:17Mr. Speaker, until then—
01:23I'll decide when there's more.
01:27Mr. Speaker, until then, I'm the one asking the questions. There's a petition out there,
01:302 million people asking him to go. He's the one who doesn't know how things work.
01:41It is not government that creates growth, Mr. Speaker, it is business. His employment
01:46secretary—I don't see her here—she wants more young people in work, but businesses
01:50say they are cutting jobs because of the Chancellor's Budget. His Deputy Prime Minister—she is
01:55not here—her Employment Rights Bill will stop businesses hiring. That's what they
01:59say. The CBI said on Monday that the dots of the government's policy don't join up.
02:07They're right, aren't they?
02:10Mr. Speaker, on Monday she said that she wouldn't reverse the increase in national insurance.
02:17Yesterday, on their legacy legislation—their predecessor—they couldn't decide what their
02:24position was. Today, they've launched a policy commission asking other people to give
02:31them some ideas for government, and she talks about a petition. We had a massive petition
02:37on 4 July in this country. We spent years taking our party from a party of protest to
02:47a party of government. They're hurtling in the opposite direction.