A round-up of Prime Minister's Questions on January 20. Boris Johnson andLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer clashed over the Home Office data deletion andCovid border closures.
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Sir Keir Starmer has challenged the Prime Minister to explain the loss of records from the police database. Mr Johnson admitted he didn't know how many cases had been affected by the issue, but the Home Office are "working around the clock" to recover the data.
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Sir Keir Starmer has pressed Boris Johnson over the UK's 'open border' during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Labour leader questioned why the Prime Minister overruled the Home Secretary last March when she raised the issue of border controls, and why tough measures were only introduced last week.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson and leader of the opposition Sir Keir Starmer have begun Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons by offering congratulations to Joe Biden ahead of his inauguration as US president.
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Prime Minister’s Questions descended into chaos as technology woes and anuisance phone call hit MPs while trying to quiz Boris Johnson. ConservativeNeil O’Brien was the first to experience issues as his landline startedringing as soon as he appeared on television screens in the chamber.
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Sir Keir Starmer questioned why Boris Johnson was “so slow to act” wheninfection rates began to surge in December. The Labour leader said: “The lastPMQs was on December 16. The Prime Minister told us then that we were seeing,in his words, a significant reduction in the virus. He told us then that therewas no need for endless lockdowns and no need to change the rules aboutChristmas mixing.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson departs Downing Street for PMQs ahead of his appearance before the cross-party Liaison Committee. Report by Browna. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Boris Johnson has departed Number 10 ahead of Prime Minister's Questions. Labour opposition leader Sir Keir Startmer will not be in the Commons today, but will take part virtually, after a member of his office staff contracted coronavirus.
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Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy says the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president today is a time for the world to "turn the page on a very dark and divisive era". Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour cabinet minister Emily Thornberry has said that a decision not to extend the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit during a pandemic would be “outrageous”. It comes after Number 10 told Conservative MPs to abstain on a non-binding vote in the Commons on Monday evening to extend the uplift. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for the ÂŁ20 uplift Universal Credit recipients receive due to the pandemic to be extended beyond 31 March.
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