PMQs: Tories preparing for opposition, Rayner tells Dowden

The Conservatives are preparing to permission office, Labour's lawman person Angela Rayner has told MPs, arsenic she accused the authorities of failing connected the NHS and kid poverty.

Ms Rayner faced Deputy PM Oliver Dowden astatine PMQs portion Rishi Sunak is away.

She said the Tories were connected a "conveyor loop of crisis" and much focused connected a right-wing league than governing.

But Mr Dowden defended the government's grounds and said the "British radical volition ne'er spot the Labour Party".

In a Prime Minister's Questions littered with banter and party-political attacks, Mr Dowden filled successful for Mr Sunak portion helium attends a G7 acme successful Japan.

He suggested determination was friction betwixt Ms Rayner and Labour's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, saying they were "at each other's throats" down the scenes.

"Mr Speaker, they're the Phil and Holly of British politics," Mr Dowden said, comparing them to the hosts of ITV's This Morning programme, whose narration has reportedly travel nether strain.

Now, pursuing the nonaccomplishment of much than 1,000 Tory councillors successful this month's section elections, Ms Rayner asked, "who does helium deliberation is liable now?"

Mr Dowden did not reply the question directly; instead, helium said helium had expected to look the Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey, who helium called "the Labour leader's prime for the adjacent lawman premier curate if they triumph the election".

In caller weeks, the Conservatives person been accusing Labour of plotting a conjugation with the Lib Dems and different parties up of the adjacent wide election.

Hitting back, Ms Rayner said it was "absolutely astonishing that portion the Labour Party is preparing to govern with a Labour majority, his enactment is starting to hole for opposition".

She referenced respective speeches by Tory MPs and furniture ministers astatine the National Conservatism Conference, an lawsuit organised by a right-wing deliberation vessel from the United States.

The league has brought blimpish thinkers, politicians and journalists to Westminster and has heard speeches from elder Tories, including Home Secretary Suella Braverman and erstwhile Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Ms Rayner described the league arsenic a "tribute act" to erstwhile US President, Donald Trump.

Brining her questions to a close, the Labour lawman leader: "And portion his colleagues spout nonsense astatine this carnival of conspiracies, I privation to know: erstwhile volition his enactment halt blaming everybody other and realise that the occupation is them?"

Mr Dowden said helium would proudly support the government's grounds connected crime, employment and the nationalist surviving wage.

"And what's their grounds - 4 wide predetermination defeats, 30 promises already broken, and 1 person who fto antisemitism tally wild," Mr Dowden said, referring to erstwhile Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

"That is wherefore the British radical volition ne'er spot the Labour party," Mr Dowden said.