Kemi Badenoch faced Keir Starmer at PM’s Questions on 6th November. Such occasions are rarely enlightening although for those interested they can be good political theatre.
Badenoch who was not pro-Trump during her leadership campaign now pressed Starmer on whether the Orange One should be invited to address Parliament. Its a matter for the Speaker not Starmer. Interestingly a YouGov poll (6th November) on how popular the newly re-arrived Trump is with voters found only 26% of Tories were happy with President Trump.
There was another issue- inevitably a culture war one- that Badenoch raised when she suggested that the Labour activists who went to ‘help’ Kamala Harris were North London Labour people. Perhaps they were but the North London reference is straight out of the Liz Truss playbook
Kemi Badenoch PMQs 6th November
The prime minister did not distance himself from the remarks made by the foreign secretary, and I’m very sure that President Trump will soon be calling to thank him for sending all of those North London Labour activists to campaign for his opponent.
Given that most of his cabinet signed a motion to ban President Trump from addressing parliament, will the prime minister show that he and his government can be more than student politicians by asking you, Mr Speaker, to extend an invitation to President Trump to address parliament on his next visit?
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