Full exchange: Starmer and Sunak clash over number of high-risk prisoner releases

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak clashed at PMQs over the number of high-risk prisoners who have been released on the government's watch.
The Labour leader accused the prime minister of focusing on small issues like the proposed ban on LGBT+ rainbow lanyards in the civil service.
The prime minister defended his record on keeping the country safe, citing the government's plans to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP.
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  • @gazedwards7141
    @gazedwards714116 күн бұрын

    Embarrassing the both of them. Especially the seagulls screaming in the background.

  • @ajones23809

    @ajones23809

    16 күн бұрын

    Seagulls I got Crows.

  • @Shehfueurj38388eej

    @Shehfueurj38388eej

    16 күн бұрын

    @@ajones23809 rats

  • @robbailie5878

    @robbailie5878

    16 күн бұрын

    Yeah their both awful. And it's embarrassing all the howling and braying you get in that chamber. It's a disgrace.

  • @Lillilady888
    @Lillilady88816 күн бұрын

    Corrupt club of mps, living the dream, having a jolly day out in parliament on mega wages pretending to promise this and that...blah blah blah

  • @azr6767
    @azr676716 күн бұрын

    Why are the people running our country jeering like kids? Is this what the great U.K. governments look like? A classroom?

  • @user-fw5kd1hn2c

    @user-fw5kd1hn2c

    16 күн бұрын

    Unfortunately YES, very sad I know 😒😒

  • @huntsteven5025

    @huntsteven5025

    16 күн бұрын

    Children

  • @richgilmour5924

    @richgilmour5924

    16 күн бұрын

    They've been doing it for a hundred years ,are you new here?

  • @wendywebster5920

    @wendywebster5920

    16 күн бұрын

    It has been like this since King George the first, so yes, you don't have to finish kindergarten to get into the house of commons.

  • @azr6767

    @azr6767

    16 күн бұрын

    @@richgilmour5924 so with your logic if a silly practice is done for hundreds of years it should continue? You must still believe in old practices like beating children, owning slaves, looking down on people with colour just because “ they’ve been doing it for hundreds of years”?

  • @ogob6623
    @ogob662316 күн бұрын

    I genuinely cannot believe UK politics looks like this. It literally looks like a middle school debate.

  • @AdamtheEnglishViking

    @AdamtheEnglishViking

    16 күн бұрын

    Haha... These lot are nowhere near as good as middle school debate teams. The kids have more braincells and trustworthiness. 😂

  • @shaunmagill8804
    @shaunmagill880416 күн бұрын

    Wasn't Starmer the one who let all the grooming gangs go free in Rotherham?

  • @wasimahmed215

    @wasimahmed215

    16 күн бұрын

    And who bailed prince Andrew out?

  • @Jacky-Boy

    @Jacky-Boy

    16 күн бұрын

    Source?

  • @rrstows3522

    @rrstows3522

    16 күн бұрын

    No get the real facts not Tories rubbish. He actually was the one who had them prosected

  • @212MPH

    @212MPH

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@wasimahmed2151 man ! You lot have it as your culture.. sickening.

  • @bachmannobsessed2234

    @bachmannobsessed2234

    16 күн бұрын

    @@wasimahmed215who refused to charge jimmy noncer saville????? Kier starmer while head of cps 2008-2013

  • @redzool
    @redzool16 күн бұрын

    Sunak is so up tight with money that he is willing to let prisoners go and find conniving ways for mentally ill people to lose their benefits, truly heartless.

  • @callumhawksworth1845

    @callumhawksworth1845

    16 күн бұрын

    He isn't tight! He robbing all of Uk incomes

  • @savannahglebe5165

    @savannahglebe5165

    16 күн бұрын

    Mentally ill or bone Idle?? Sitting at home feeling sorry for yourself doesn’t help your mental health FACT! Neither does drink or drugs but they’ll still do those!

  • @callumhawksworth1845

    @callumhawksworth1845

    15 күн бұрын

    @@savannahglebe5165 You're one of them proper judgemental people aren't you. You're all perfect aren't you ?? Making other people lives hard to in order to makes you feels better is weak individual of you. I've seen disable who is not greats at works at all also have heard how extra dangerous it can be for them to be at works if there is an accident or danger of hazard for work safety ??? A person who thinks they know all tend to don't. Looks at Sunak ?? He's an embarrassments going against this to covered up his other failure stories or what he had been up to! Himself!

  • @savannahglebe5165

    @savannahglebe5165

    15 күн бұрын

    @@callumhawksworth1845 Sorry can I have that again in English 😂🤣 Here you are calling people judgemental yet you’re judging people 😂 Aww you’re not the brightest are you? I’ll tell you what I am, A person who gets off her arse and goes to work every day! Run ragged just to keep a roof over my head and pay the bills. I come from no different background than anybody else that pleads poverty, I’ve lived amongst people like you who think they’re owed something in life! Who think they’re the only people who have mental health issues,or trauma or a hard life. The truth is we all do, the only thing people like you suffer with is entitlement snd selfishness! So you just sit st home while the rest of us work tirelessly to pay for our lives and yours too. You’re scum of society, you don’t mind taking our money but you don’t like to hear about it? TOUGH.

  • @savannahglebe5165

    @savannahglebe5165

    15 күн бұрын

    @@callumhawksworth1845 Sorry can I have that again in English 😂🤣 Here you are calling people judgemental yet you’re judging people 😂 Aww you’re not the brightest are you? I’ll tell you who I am I’m a person who gets off her arse and goes to work every day! Run ragged just to keep a roof over my head and pay the bills and give something back to society! I come from no different background than anybody else that pleads poverty, I’ve lived amongst people like you who think they’re owed something in life! Who think they’re the only people who have mental health issues,or trauma or a hard life. The truth is we all do, the only thing people like you suffer with is entitlement and selfishness! So you just sit at home while the rest of us work tirelessly to pay for our lives and yours too. You’re the dreggs of society, you don’t mind taking our money but you don’t like to hear about it. TOUGH.

  • @LiamR90
    @LiamR9016 күн бұрын

    "Defence spending". Maybe it's not being backed because that money will be flown straight overseas. I'm not a Labour supporter but I also wouldn't back Rishi on that.

  • @LiamR90
    @LiamR9016 күн бұрын

    Politicians say a whole lot of nothing. How does a conversation about soft prison sentences lead to let's spend more on war...

  • @Jacky-Boy
    @Jacky-Boy16 күн бұрын

    "The prime minister treated us to his 7th relaunch in 18 months" 😂

  • @Annabella24183
    @Annabella2418316 күн бұрын

    Yet young men are held on hearsay when police dont do their jobs

  • @user-gj8no1uh4j
    @user-gj8no1uh4j16 күн бұрын

    What about all the extremists in our country all ready do something about them

  • @JohnClem7865
    @JohnClem786516 күн бұрын

    Starmer is actually worse than Rishi! He is not PM material.

  • @4thegood

    @4thegood

    16 күн бұрын

    Both are cut from the same cloth and serve the same vision. At this point, Conservatives have left such a toxic impression with the public, they have given the next big party an open goal.

  • @richgilmour5924

    @richgilmour5924

    15 күн бұрын

    @@4thegood nah,hung parliment

  • @4thegood

    @4thegood

    15 күн бұрын

    @@richgilmour5924 I’m not going to come back in a few months and say I told you so. However, labour wins by default as people have just had enough of the Tories.

  • @johnwarren9112
    @johnwarren911216 күн бұрын

    Starmer the charmer and rishi useless... right 🤡🤡🤡🤡

  • @pjj177
    @pjj17716 күн бұрын

    The prisoners would probably make the streets safer at this point , the country is finished. Until we stand up like the Irish this is what we'll get

  • @user-wq6sz7vt3w
    @user-wq6sz7vt3w16 күн бұрын

    Skidmark Starmer is regularly used as a floor rag. The EU can’t wait for him!

  • @onana2491
    @onana249116 күн бұрын

    the rumour circulating westminster is that mickey mouse wears a sir keir starmer wrist watch

  • @QueenJuno88
    @QueenJuno8816 күн бұрын

    The civil service should be politically neutral. Colourful lanyards are not just ‘colourful’ they’re a symbol of Stonewall. Stonewall does not write the laws of the UK or UN although they think they do.

  • @savannahglebe5165

    @savannahglebe5165

    16 күн бұрын

    It’s not an Important Issue yet it’s all they ever go on about!!

  • @johndean1634
    @johndean163416 күн бұрын

    The Morecambe and Wise double act of UK Politics. Highligthed perfectly with the Scripted PM Questions. All questions and responses Scripted before hand.

  • @cryptosaffa3869
    @cryptosaffa386916 күн бұрын

    "Currency inflation, income taxes, and debt have enabled governments to get completely out of control. The prognosis is not good." - Doug Casey, International Man

  • @Leerobertshaw
    @Leerobertshaw16 күн бұрын

    Children in charge this must be ended

  • @huntsteven5025
    @huntsteven502516 күн бұрын

    Awkward to watch

  • @Crimsonyte21
    @Crimsonyte2116 күн бұрын

    As a labour fan, that techbro comment was really funny haha

  • @MrKidOcelot
    @MrKidOcelot16 күн бұрын

    Vote for the Citizen Independents or The Workers Party of Britain!!!

  • @ebsandflops
    @ebsandflops16 күн бұрын

    I can’t even watch this. The ridiculous and POINTLESS jibes make a mockery of the real issues that need to be discussed. These debates always disgust me with how they are carried out. It’s 2024 - well passed the time to do away with the theatrics.

  • @ChrisTowner-wc8zj
    @ChrisTowner-wc8zj16 күн бұрын

    Mr Starmer according to you we don't have enough trouble you would like more migrants from troubled country's.

  • @englishraven1075
    @englishraven107516 күн бұрын

    Tory, labour WEF alliance

  • @martincheeseman5809
    @martincheeseman58095 күн бұрын

    Come on kier we are all waiting for you!

  • @martincheeseman5809
    @martincheeseman580914 күн бұрын

    Come on kier we know you will do it!

  • @ajones23809
    @ajones2380916 күн бұрын

    Are they high risk or not?

  • @martincheeseman5809
    @martincheeseman58095 күн бұрын

    Billionaire from birth Sunak pisses me off!

  • @drewu213
    @drewu21316 күн бұрын

    Once again proving his own hypocrisy, Starmer completely forgot his own failure to prosecute the Sir J Saville.

  • @kylewarwick5929

    @kylewarwick5929

    16 күн бұрын

    Reality is a concept you understand is it?

  • @rrstows3522

    @rrstows3522

    16 күн бұрын

    Rubbish propaganda,get the real facts

  • @GizmoGremlinDog

    @GizmoGremlinDog

    16 күн бұрын

    No prosecution was brought in relation to any of the four complaints, on the grounds that none of the victims were “prepared to support any police action”, for example testifying in court.

  • @savannahglebe5165

    @savannahglebe5165

    16 күн бұрын

    @@rrstows3522What are the real facts then??

  • @savannahglebe5165

    @savannahglebe5165

    16 күн бұрын

    @@kylewarwick5929Are you on drugs?

  • @darkpool6319
    @darkpool631916 күн бұрын

    It's bad enough under tories but will be much worse under labour. Be wise when you vote, even if it's for the lesser of two evils 😬

  • @Mors_Inimicis

    @Mors_Inimicis

    16 күн бұрын

    Absolutely. I live in a Tory borough and it’s nice . I want to keep it that way 👍🏻

  • @GizmoGremlinDog

    @GizmoGremlinDog

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@Mors_Inimicis what borough is that?

  • @Mors_Inimicis

    @Mors_Inimicis

    16 күн бұрын

    @@GizmoGremlinDog Bromley . It has its crap parts but I can go out walking without crossing the road to avoid nutters . I feel safe here which is what most normal people want when they return home after work.

  • @martincheeseman5809
    @martincheeseman58095 күн бұрын

    I bet Sunack has never been in a fight in his life and he really pisses me off !

  • @AllenAndersonCallaghan
    @AllenAndersonCallaghan16 күн бұрын

    Angela… how’s the house?

  • @childofthe60s100

    @childofthe60s100

    16 күн бұрын

    All gone "very quiet" hasn't it. It's WHO you know!

  • @mrxmagumba8865
    @mrxmagumba886516 күн бұрын

    Who created this ? The elected

  • @cp1011986
    @cp101198616 күн бұрын

    I never get used to all the background cheering etc. can they not just nail something down to an action.

  • @sol2746
    @sol274616 күн бұрын

    The sooner keir starmer & labour get in power the better,this rishi bullshit is getting too much.

  • @techno-phobe3000
    @techno-phobe300016 күн бұрын

    They're both full of it and drunk on ego. Not saying or doing much other than jibes at each other. One gets more sense out of a classroom of unruly teenagers.

  • @jessicagarner5426
    @jessicagarner542616 күн бұрын

    Vote Liberal Democrat for once. Stop making these two pathetic parties relevant. The tories will kill the nhs. There is a reason no one’s voting Tory. It’s because they have destroyed this country.

  • @user-fn1iv5qs7e

    @user-fn1iv5qs7e

    16 күн бұрын

    You mean vote for the reform party Lib Dem’s are the same rubbish

  • @paulnaude1
    @paulnaude116 күн бұрын

    Galloway is right, watch two faces of the same backside putting on a pathetic show of ineptitude.

  • @patriciathomas9749
    @patriciathomas974916 күн бұрын

    They sound like a load off sheep 😅

  • @drkarenbukharibukhari9931
    @drkarenbukharibukhari993116 күн бұрын

    Thanks PM rishi

  • @MrCraigyou
    @MrCraigyou16 күн бұрын

    As an english man.....hearing you lot talk like this is a disgrace.

  • @clairee4939

    @clairee4939

    16 күн бұрын

    As an Englishwoman, seeing you write Englishman like that hurt my soul 😂

  • @ThesocialmuteHD
    @ThesocialmuteHD16 күн бұрын

    Aren’t ALL prisoners considered high risk? How stupid are these MPs

  • @user-lt5sh4gm8o
    @user-lt5sh4gm8o16 күн бұрын

    Sunak you like a big baby 👶.

  • @paulweir519
    @paulweir51916 күн бұрын

    By

  • @stephenrigione3001
    @stephenrigione300115 күн бұрын

    Get karn out is destroying our country

  • @davie7967
    @davie796716 күн бұрын

    You can never trust Labour

  • @huntsteven5025
    @huntsteven502516 күн бұрын

    Pair clowns

  • @intunewithcars9484
    @intunewithcars948416 күн бұрын

    labour are the worse of 2 evils

  • @abbey2874
    @abbey287416 күн бұрын

    Tories are so disillusioned like Boris. It’s over brudder

  • @intunewithcars9484

    @intunewithcars9484

    16 күн бұрын

    labour are worse im certain

  • @abbey2874

    @abbey2874

    16 күн бұрын

    Any worse than these clowns. How many PM’s in last 14 years, the last one couldn’t even follow the rules. ps I was an ex Tory

  • @shelleyscloud3651

    @shelleyscloud3651

    16 күн бұрын

    @@abbey2874I’m ex labour and not at all, not ever, Tory....Labour will be worse.

  • @intunewithcars9484

    @intunewithcars9484

    16 күн бұрын

    @@abbey2874 100% worse look at labours policies...all from islam appeasing to open borders to illegal migrants, and you wanna talk about boris hmmm..what about tony b-liar the war monger or his rotten wife that gave rights to peados...labour are discusting !!...tories sadly are left leaning now so they would not get my vote but labour are far left just like you...im centre right leaning how most should be if you value your christian country

  • @abbey2874

    @abbey2874

    16 күн бұрын

    @@shelleyscloud3651 why ?

  • @user-yn4gn5hr6y
    @user-yn4gn5hr6y16 күн бұрын

    Yet both party's are letting the criminals in on the boats

  • @siadali7673
    @siadali767316 күн бұрын

    Sir Keir Starmer strong at despatch box

  • @irongalaxy3720
    @irongalaxy372016 күн бұрын

    Two moral voids spout at each other in a classroom of grinning inanity. Free Palestine

  • @212MPH
    @212MPH16 күн бұрын

    Starmer ! Haha he couldn't even put Jimmy Saville or Cyril Smith inside. Coming from him 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @morsidulalam7022
    @morsidulalam702216 күн бұрын

    Mr Crystal clear

  • @childofthe60s100

    @childofthe60s100

    16 күн бұрын

    Who behaves as if he's on Crystal Meth!