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15 January 2025

PMQs review: Badenoch keeps letting Starmer win

Someone ought to give the Conservative leader advice about momentum.

By Rachel Cunliffe

Once again, it was a day of open goals for the Tories to score against Labour: the ongoing volatility in the UK economy and the tricky situation faced by Rachel Reeves, the resignation of city minister Tulip Siddiq amid a foreign corruption scandal, the row over the Chagos Islands handover, and most recently the suggestion that former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams could be in line for taxpayer compensation if the government repeals parts of 2023 Northern Ireland legacy legislation.

Kemi Badenoch went for all of them – with mixed success.

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