Rishi Sunak blasts Labour for failing to 'stand with Britons' on THREE occasions in just three days

Sunak said: “We'll look at what’s happened just in this week, Mr Speaker, where the Labour Party have put themselves.

“On Monday, in the other place, they decided to side with extremist protesters.

“Just yesterday, they sided with polluters, Mr Speaker.

“And tonight we will see them side with the people smugglers, Mr Speaker.

“I tell you this, while we are in the business of sending back the one-thousandth illegal migrant from Albania, Mr Speaker, we are delivering cost-of-living payments to millions of households just yesterday and today we’ve announced we’ve put 20,000 more police officers on the street, Mr Speaker.

“We’re siding with the British people, Mr Speaker, that’s what the Conservative Government does.”

The House of Lords previously voted to overturn additional elements of the Public Order Bill, leading Tory officials to urge Labour to support the legislation.

Starmer's MPs were also forced to abstain on their own motion to reduce sewage discharge last night.

The Labour Party has consistently voiced opposition to Sunak's Illegal Migration Bill.

The legislation, which looks to promptly remove illegal immigrants to their home country or a safe third nation, will return to the House of Commons for its third reading later today.

The Prime Minister comments were made in response to the Labour leader's jibe about non-dom status.

Starmer said: "He refuses to scrap the non-dom status that benefits him and his family, I can see why he's attracted to this non-dom thing.

"This Prime Minister is so removed from the country that he boasted that he didn't know a single working-class person, so insulated from reality that he proudly told a Tory garden party that he moved money from poorer areas and handed it to rich ones, so out of touch that he looks at a petrol pump and debit card like they've just arrived from Mars.

"Is it any wonder that he smiles through the cost-of-living crisis while putting taxes up? Is it any wonder he doesn't have a clue how food prices are hammering families across the country? And is it any wonder that under him people are paying more and more and getting less and less?"

The Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition faced off at midday for the first time since Dominic Raab resigned from Sunak's Cabinet and Labour suspended the whip from former Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott over offensive comments about racism.

However, Sunak and Starmer avoided digs about party personnel and instead focused on the economy and cost-of-living crisis.

The pair were quick to quote from former Treasury chiefs about the Government's economic plan, with Sir Keir referring to ex-Chancellor George Osborne's "vandals" remark and Sunak citing former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls' description of a "triumph".

The Labour leader also claimed real wages have fallen by £1,600 per household at a time when the Conservative Party have introduced 24 tax rises.

But the Prime Minister defended the Government's record on the national living wage, pensions, universal credit, cost-of-living payments, increasing employment and reducing poverty.

While Starmer blamed economic turbulence on "13 years of failure" under the Conservative Party, Sunak warned Labour's plan would lead to "more spending, more borrowing".

Echoing Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister added: "It's the same old Labour Party - they are always running out of other peoples money."