Prime minister was accused of avoiding sensitive votes and PMQs no-shows at liaison committee hearing
Rishi Sunak has angrily denied being an absentee prime minister who routinely misses Commons scrutiny and sensitive votes as he endured sometimes turbulent questioning from senior MPs.
Quizzed by Chris Bryant as part of a grilling by the liaison committee, Sunak defended his plan to miss the next two prime minister’s questions, a timetable that Labour said will give him the lowest attendance record at weekly PMQs for any prime minister since 1979.
