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Rishi Sunak faced backlash for making a transgender “joke” during Prime Minister’s Questions today (7 February), as Brianna Ghey’s mother watched on in the gallery.The prime minister joked that Sir Keir Starmer had changed his position on “defining a woman” following the Labour leader’s tribute to the murdered schoolgirl and her mother, Esther Ghey.Accusing Mr Starmer of “breaking every single promise he was elected on”, the Prime Minister said: “I think I have counted almost 30 in the last year. Pensions, planning, peerages, public sector pay, tuition fees, childcare, second referendums, defining a woman, although in fairness that was only 99 percent of a u-turn.”Mr Starmer replied: “Of all the weeks to say that, when Brianna’s mother is in this chamber. Shame.“Parading as a man of integrity when he’s got absolutely no responsibility.” More

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer sent well wishes to King Charles III following his cancer diagnosis.The party leaders sent get well messages to the monarch as they spoke at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 7 February.His Majesty, 75, has postponed all public-facing duties but is continuing with behind-the-scenes work on his red boxes of state papers.Charles usually has a weekly audience with Mr Sunak on Wednesday.The PM said he was thankful the King’s cancer has been “caught early”. More

Nadine Dorries claimed David Cameron has a “problem with women” and should talk to them like he speaks to “his pals from Eton.”Speaking to Times Radio, the former culture secretary said that, though she liked George Osborne and the foreign secretary “very much”, the pair “looked down their nose” at at MPs who “didn’t come from the right backgrounds” when she was elected in 2005.“Every time there’s an election… I want to shake [Lord] Cameron and say… you have a problem with women, talk to women like you do to everybody else, to your pals from Eton.” More

Former Neighbours actress Holly Valance has backed Jacob Rees-Mogg to be the next prime minister as she hit out at “crap” left-wing political ideology.The former popstar, who is married to billionaire luxury property tycoon Nick Candy, also praised Liz Truss at the launch of her Popular Conservatism group on Tuesday (6 February).In an interview with GB News, the former model said: “The speakers were fantastic. I thought Liz [Truss] was really interesting to listen to, Jacob [Rees-Mogg] for prime minister, the MP for Ashfield [Lee Anderson] was awesome, love a northerner, straight to the point and very sensible.” More

Liz Truss claims “wokery” is being spread in schools and universities across the country.The former prime minister was speaking after a launch rally of the new faction – dubbed the PopCons in Westminster – in central London on Tuesday (6 February).The group aims to pile pressure on the Prime Minister to cut taxes, to adopt hardline policies on immigration and leave the European Convention on Human Rights.In an interview with GB News, Ms Truss was asked about the new grassroots movement.She said: “We’re seeing the spreading of wokery, of left-wing ideas. PopCon is about combatting that.” More

Britain is full of people who don’t want to admit they’re Tories, Liz Truss told the launch rally of the new Popular Conservatism (PopCon) movement on Tuesday, 6 February.Speaking in central London, the short-lived former prime minister said: “Britain is full of secret Conservatives – people who agree with us but don’t want to admit it because they think it’s not acceptable in their place of work, it’s not acceptable at their school.”Ms Truss also hit out at Rishi Sunak’s government for failing to take on “left-wing extremists” she claimed had gained control of UK institutions. More

A Tory MP has claimed there is a “direct link” between drill music and young people carrying knives.Nickie Aiken urged the government to look at record labels that produce music “celebrating gang culture”.Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 6 February, the Cities of London and Westminster MP said: “There has got to be a direct link to young people feeling encultured that it’s the right thing to do to carry a knife and perhaps be willing to use it.”Ms Aiken also pushed the government to “look at more flexible legislation around the words of blades” rather than being specific about particular products. More

Humza Yousaf opened up about how he did not move from his sofa for 24 hours as he was almost in a “state of breakdown” when his first marriage ended.The Scottish First Minister spoke to The Rest is Politics podcast with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart about how his mental health suffered when he was transport minister and his first marriage, to SNP activist Gail Lythgoe, broke down.Mr Yousaf said he feared his career would be impacted if he opened up to colleagues about the breakdown.“For a whole 24 hours I did not move – didn’t get up to drink water, didn’t get up to go to the toilet, didn’t eat anything,” Mr Yousaf added. More