Starmer repeatedly dodges questions over Louise Haigh’s resignation in PMQs clash

Starmer repeatedly dodges questions over Louise Haigh’s resignation in PMQs clashReuters

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00:00The question today is what has been on the lips of all Labour MPs, including, I believe,

00:06the Health Secretary yesterday. The Prime Minister knowingly appointed a convicted podster

00:11to be his Transport Secretary. What was he thinking?

00:15The previous Transport Secretary was right when further information came forward to resign.

00:22What a marked contrast to behaviour in the last 14 years. She talks about immigration—record

00:31levels of immigration under the previous Government, nearly a million. She was the cheerleader.

00:37She was the one urging on the removal of the caps for work visas. She was thanking the

00:42previous Home Secretary for the work that was done. She championed it. She advocated

00:46it—record numbers of immigration.

00:48The right hon. Gentleman is obfuscating, but I will keep him on the topic. He owes

00:54the House an explanation. He said that the former Transport Secretary was only asked

01:00to resign after further information came to light. What was that further information?

01:05I am not going to disclose private conversations. Further information came to light and the

01:12Transport Secretary resigned. What a marked contrast. While she is obsessing with Westminster

01:19issues, we are getting on with fixing the mess, fixing the foundations, that £22 billion

01:25black hole, our prisons bursting and, as we found out last week, nearly a million net

01:32migration numbers because of the Tory open borders policy.