• Rishi Sunak was admonished by the Speaker at Prime Minister’s Questions after brandishing a book Keir Starmer had written on human rights.
• The moment came after the Tory leader repeatedly failed to answer his Labour opposite’s question, on whether the UK Government had “found” more than 4000 people it was meant to send to Rwanda but instead lost track of.
• Starmer countered: “He hasn’t got a clue where they are, has he? I can tell you one place they aren’t and that’s Rwanda because the only thing they’ve sent to Rwanda is Cabinet ministers.”
• The Prime Minister said: “I know he’s always been more interested in what lefty lawyers have to say. I’ve even got here the textbook that he authored for them – and it’s called European Human Rights Law by Keir Starmer.”
• The Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, then intervened to admonish the Tory leader.
• “Prime Minister. Prime Minister, when I stand up, please sit down,” he said. “Can I just say we don’t use props in this House and I will certainly ensure that if you do need reminding, I certainly will.”
Wow, Kier Starmer cares about human rights, what a fucking asshole! /s
A book on human rights isn’t the smeer tactic he thinks it is
It’s a weird flex to admonish your opponent on literally having written the book on the subject you are debating.
Look at my loser opponent knowing about human rights to an extent he writes books about it. Surely that proves he’s out of touch and you should believe me…who is trying to declare a cat a dog by law to bypass said rights
Kier writes books about the law, Rishi just writes bigger and bigger checks to Rwanda.
Clown. Truly a terrible PM. The “boats” are a distraction so that he can claim to act tough on immigration while simultaneously allowing record numbers of migrants into the country to prop up the economy.
If somehow all the boat crossings *were* stopped it would reduce immigration by a mere 6%. (based on 2023 immigration and boat crossings)
To be fair to Sunak he has been using immigration to try and prop up his failing government for months now so how was he supposed to know that props aren’t allowed?
It’s this tit who is making our politics more American.
He’ll be pulling out pics of Starmers kids naked next like MTG
I’d love to have a leader who views the law as something more than an inconvenience.
Looks like “Back to square one” will be their canvassing slogan.
If only we could go back to square one and rip it all down and start again
Would that be a book about laws relating to a court instigated by the famous Lefty
……. Checks notes….
**Winston Churchill**?
Yeah sit down Rishi. And for g.ds sake. Shut the [f.ck](https://f.ck) up. Just give us our election.
To be fair to Rishi, Starmer doesn’t seem to have a good grasp of human rights considering his lack of awareness of human rights violations in Gaza AND the West Bank
Why is it called PMQ when the PM never answers questions?
This is what puts people off with politics. PMQs is the public gateway into the House of Commons. Its what people see on the news, social media etc. And all you see is grown men and women acting like 5yr olds
The best advice to (no longer Dishy) Rishi comes from Leo Amery MP’s words to Neville Chamberlain, back in 1940:
“In the name of God, go!”
I was listening at the time.
He held up a book with a factual title, that quite frankly is almost certainly a very detailed book written by an expert on human rights law. People went mad, mooing and booing
The speaker didn’t really tell him off, it’s very much a pally tone with those two. He spoke to him like you tell your niece to not do something
Keir had his carefully prepared line ready and didn’t even acknowledge the book jibe
Utterly unsatisfying listen. I might never, *ever* tune in again.
Lol “ my opponent literally wrote a book on humans right law “ not the diss u think it is Rishi son
One writes books on human rights.
The other resorts to the playground antics of his buufoon predecessor.
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The National’s Xander Elliards:
• Rishi Sunak was admonished by the Speaker at Prime Minister’s Questions after brandishing a book Keir Starmer had written on human rights.
• The moment came after the Tory leader repeatedly failed to answer his Labour opposite’s question, on whether the UK Government had “found” more than 4000 people it was meant to send to Rwanda but instead lost track of.
• Starmer countered: “He hasn’t got a clue where they are, has he? I can tell you one place they aren’t and that’s Rwanda because the only thing they’ve sent to Rwanda is Cabinet ministers.”
• The Prime Minister said: “I know he’s always been more interested in what lefty lawyers have to say. I’ve even got here the textbook that he authored for them – and it’s called European Human Rights Law by Keir Starmer.”
• The Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, then intervened to admonish the Tory leader.
• “Prime Minister. Prime Minister, when I stand up, please sit down,” he said. “Can I just say we don’t use props in this House and I will certainly ensure that if you do need reminding, I certainly will.”
Wow, Kier Starmer cares about human rights, what a fucking asshole! /s
A book on human rights isn’t the smeer tactic he thinks it is
It’s a weird flex to admonish your opponent on literally having written the book on the subject you are debating.
Look at my loser opponent knowing about human rights to an extent he writes books about it. Surely that proves he’s out of touch and you should believe me…who is trying to declare a cat a dog by law to bypass said rights
Kier writes books about the law, Rishi just writes bigger and bigger checks to Rwanda.
Clown. Truly a terrible PM. The “boats” are a distraction so that he can claim to act tough on immigration while simultaneously allowing record numbers of migrants into the country to prop up the economy.
If somehow all the boat crossings *were* stopped it would reduce immigration by a mere 6%. (based on 2023 immigration and boat crossings)
To be fair to Sunak he has been using immigration to try and prop up his failing government for months now so how was he supposed to know that props aren’t allowed?
It’s this tit who is making our politics more American.
He’ll be pulling out pics of Starmers kids naked next like MTG
I’d love to have a leader who views the law as something more than an inconvenience.
Looks like “Back to square one” will be their canvassing slogan.
If only we could go back to square one and rip it all down and start again
Would that be a book about laws relating to a court instigated by the famous Lefty
……. Checks notes….
**Winston Churchill**?
Yeah sit down Rishi. And for g.ds sake. Shut the [f.ck](https://f.ck) up. Just give us our election.
To be fair to Rishi, Starmer doesn’t seem to have a good grasp of human rights considering his lack of awareness of human rights violations in Gaza AND the West Bank
Why is it called PMQ when the PM never answers questions?
This is what puts people off with politics. PMQs is the public gateway into the House of Commons. Its what people see on the news, social media etc. And all you see is grown men and women acting like 5yr olds
The best advice to (no longer Dishy) Rishi comes from Leo Amery MP’s words to Neville Chamberlain, back in 1940:
“In the name of God, go!”
I was listening at the time.
He held up a book with a factual title, that quite frankly is almost certainly a very detailed book written by an expert on human rights law. People went mad, mooing and booing
The speaker didn’t really tell him off, it’s very much a pally tone with those two. He spoke to him like you tell your niece to not do something
Keir had his carefully prepared line ready and didn’t even acknowledge the book jibe
Utterly unsatisfying listen. I might never, *ever* tune in again.
Lol “ my opponent literally wrote a book on humans right law “ not the diss u think it is Rishi son
One writes books on human rights.
The other resorts to the playground antics of his buufoon predecessor.
He’s not fit to be PM. Never was