Watch the moment Nigel Farage is left in hysterics as Keir Starmer puts his party, Reform UK, in the spotlight at PMQs.
The Prime Minister put it to the Leader of the Opposition that her Shadow Justice Minister, Robert Jenrick, is eyeing up a possible partnership with the insurgent right-wing party.
Badenoch sought to shut down the attacks by accusing Starmer of playing "political football", only for the PM to hit back again with the same jibe.
“I think the WhatsApp groups she should be worried about are the ones of her Shadow Justice Secretary”, he said.
Keir Starmer's jibes left Nigel Farage in stitches
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“He is not here. He’s a man doing everything he can to replace her. The man most of them want as the leader of their party.
“He’s admitted that Reform and the Tories are working together. He said he ‘wants this fight to be united’ and he’s ‘determined to bring this coalition together one thing or another’.
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“Every Tory voter who is appalled at the thought of paying for the NHS, every Reform voter who hates what the Tories did over the past 14 years.
“They’re not conservatives - they’re a con.”
Badenoch hit back: “Who’s playing political football now? He’s got no answers. Yesterday, Labour MP after Labour MP challenged the ruling [Supreme Court trans ruling].
“He should be more worried about his backbenchers than my frontbenchers.
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“His Labour ministers called the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission ‘appalling’. Baroness Faulkner’s rule is critical to enforcing the court’s judgment.
“She has had to put up with relentless abuse. Not just from his frontbencher, but from activists and ideologues. Reappointing her will be a clear sign he is taking this issue seriously. Will he commit to reappointing Baroness Faulkner when her term expires this year.”
Starmer said the trans debate should be conducted “properly”, a remark which was met with laughter from the Tory backbenches.
He soon brought up what he calls a “Reform-Tory coalition forming behind her back”.
The PM continued: “Talking of political football, a coalition between Reform and the Tories being formed behind her back.
“We know what it means when the Shadow Justice Secretary and the member for Clacton cook up their joint manifesto.
“NHS charging, a pro-Russia foreign policy and an end to workers’ rights.
“Just as the last government lost control of the economy, borders and health, in six short months, she has lost control of her party.”
