Sir Keir Starmer is currently participating in Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, engaging in a direct confrontation with Kemi Badenoch.
The Prime Minister has arrived at Parliament after delivering a national address from Downing Street, during which he cautioned that Britain is confronting a new terrorism threat posed by ‘loners and misfits.’ He committed to implementing ‘fundamental change’ aimed at safeguarding children.

This development follows the recent guilty plea of teenage offender Axel Rudakubana, who admitted to the murder of three young girls in Southport earlier this week at Liverpool Crown Court.
Additionally, this marks the first encounter between the leaders since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States on Monday, coinciding with new statistics indicating that government borrowing has reached its highest level in four years.
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Starmer starts PMQs on Southport
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has kicked off this week’s session PMQs by reiterating fundamental change is needed in the wake of the Southport murders.
He says some ‘measure of justice’ was achieved this week after Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to murdering three young girls.
Exclusive:Grandfather of Southport stabbing survivor accuses Starmer of ‘protecting himself’
The grandfather of a girl who survived being stabbed by Axel Rudakubana has accused Sir Keir Starmer of ‘choosing to protect himself’ in the aftermath of the attack, MailOnline has today revealed.
The man, who cannot be identified as all the surviving children have been granted anonymity, has demanded the sacking of everyone who failed to realise the deadly threat posed by the teenager.
On Starmer’s role, he said: ‘I think that if, instead of doubling down on talking about the far right, he had come clean that this was a terrorist incident, things would have been different.
‘We were not looked after – we were pushed by the wayside.
While Rudakubana was not charged with carrying out a terrorist attack because police found no evidence that he was motivated by an ideology, the Prime Minister yesterday acknowledged that ‘terrorism has changed’.
Read our exclusive story here:

Benefit cheats to be banned from driving
The Government will unveil new proposals today to crack down on benefit fraud which could see perpetrators banned from driving.
Under new measures being put forward, those who repeatedly cheat the system could be punished with a driving ban of up to two years.
Employment minister Alison McGovern told BBC Breakfast:
This driving licence power is a tool in the box as a backstop, where people simply don’t want to co-operate at all, that we can use to get that money back. So, we do know it’s effective and we know that it will help us.
Pictured: Starmer leaves Downing Street ahead of PMQs
Sir Keir Starmer has been pictured leaving Downing Street as he heads to Parliament for Prime Minister’s Questions.
Badenoch’s support among Tories tumbles after spat with Farage
Kemi Badenoch’s support among Conservative Party members has tumbled after a month of flat poll ratings and attacks from Reform.
The Tory leader has fallen from first to seventh in the latest Conservative Home survey of the party grassroots, a poll she had hitherto topped every month since July’s election.
Before Christmas her net satisfaction rate surged to +70. But it has more than halved in the new year as she struggles for relevance with Nigel Farage’s party pulling neck-and-neck.
She had made headlines with a public spat with Mr Farage over the size of Reform’s membership, and also struggled to maintain the fallout after she was accused of dropping support for the pensions triple lock.
Mel Stride, her shadow chancellor, now tops the poll, with Robert Jenrick, her leadership rival last year, in second.

Badenoch faces Starmer after admission of Tory failures
Kemi Badenoch heads to the PMQs for the first time since a major speech last week in which she admitted Tory failures on Brexit, immigration and Net Zero.
The Conservative leader has promised to be honest with the country as she battles to restore her party’s reputation and ward off the threat from Nigel Farage and Reform.
In what her billed as her first big speech of the year, Ms Badenoch said she was committed to her outspoken approach having been criticised for blaming ‘peasants’ from ‘sub-communities’ in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis.
With Starmer all to eager to point out the previous government’s deficiencies, will he use Ms Badenoch’s own words against her when they come face-to-face in the chamber?
Could Heathrow expansion see Labour tensions take off?
Rachel Reeves is widely reported to be ready to signal support for a third runway at Heathrow airport in a move which threatens to divide her Cabinet.
The Chancellor has insisted major projects, like Heathrow, will no longer be blocked as she tries to drum up investment at the elite Davos gathering in Switzerland.
But the airport has a sore history with some of the Cabinet with as many as eight Labour ministers voting to oppose expansion in 2018.
Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband once threatened to resign from Gordon Brown’s government over Heathrow proposals in 2009, while London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been a fierce critic of a third runway.

Borrowing surges to four-year high after Labour splurge
Rachel Reeves suffered a fresh blow today after government borrowing surged to a four-year high.
As the Chancellor woos the business elite in Davos, official figures showed the public sector racking up another £17.8billion last month – even more than analysts had expected.
The level was the third highest for any December on record, £10.1billion above the same month last year.
The ONS said the figure was driven higher largely by soaring debt interest payments, which were up £3.8billion year on year, while spending also rose.
Borrowing in the financial year so far is £129.9billion, £8.9billion more than the same period a year earlier and the second-highest financial year-to-December borrowing since monthly records began.

Reeves hit by biggest jobs slump since Covid
Today’s front page story of The Daily Mail may be referenced in the Commons today as more pressure piles on Rachel Reeves.
Our newspaper colleagues report that as Ms Reeves jetted off to Davos last night, Britain has recorded its biggest jobs slump since Covid.
And as the Chancellor heads for the Swiss mountain resort of Davos for the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum, it was also claimed the UK was heading for a ‘debt death spiral’.
And the boss of one of Britain’s leading banks said the Chancellor had so far failed to get to grips with the economy.
Read the story by John-Paul Ford Rojas, The Daily Mail’s Deputy Business Editor, here:

Trump, Davos and Southport: What will be discussed at PMQs?
Let’s take a look at the topics that may come up in the Commons this afternoon:
Today’s showdown in the Commons is the first since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US President following his inauguration on Monday.
All eyes will be on the Government’s relationship with a Trump administration as it seeks to negotiate a trade deal to bolster economic growth.
But some of the Labour frontbench have been less than flattering about America’s new commander-in-chief so will Ms Badenoch seek to highlight those tensions at the despatch box?
Ms Badenoch said she welcomed a public inquiry into the Southport murders but also added there remains ‘serious questions’ around transparency at the time of the attacks.
The Prime Minister attempted to get on the front foot yesterday with an address from Downing Street where he admitted he did ‘withhold’ information about the terrorist links of Axel Rudakubana.
Will he face more questions about what he didn’t share when the murders were carried out?
Under pressure Chancellor Rachel Reeves will be a notable absentee from the Commons today as she attempts to convince the world’s richest businessmen to invest in the UK at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
As she goes all out for growth, Ms Reeves is facing claims Britain is heading for a ‘debt death spiral’ while economists warn she has so far failed to get a handle on the public finances.
Ms Badenoch has previously suggested the PM’s right hand woman is unqualified to lead the Treasury…will she renew her attack today?
The tiny islands six thousand miles away in the Indian Ocean have proved a headache for the Prime Minister with a proposed deal over ownership with Mauritius put on hold to allow Trump to review it.
Now it has emerged senior Trump aide Robert Wilkie is less than impressed with the agreement, arguing the UK’s decision was ‘haphazard’ and that ‘not much thought’ had been put into it.
Will these remarks give further ammunition to Badenoch to attack Labour over its negotiations?
Starmer to face Badenoch at PMQs
Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage as Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch face off once again in the Commons at Prime Minister’s Questions.
The Prime Minister heads to Parliament following his address from Downing Street yesterday in which he declared Britain faces a new threat of ‘extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms’.
It came after the Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the triple murder of young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last summer.
The Conservatives have welcomed a public inquiry into the murders but suggested there should have been more transparency at the time of Rudakubana’s attacks.
Stick with us as we bring you live updates from the Commons.