‘Of all the weeks to say that,’ says Labour leader in angry response to prime minister’s remark

Keir Starmer has angrily confronted Rishi Sunak in the Commons as the prime minister derided Labour’s policy on transgender rights after being told that the mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey was watching from the public gallery.

Starmer began his first question of PMQs by saying Esther Ghey was watching the session. He was scheduled to meet her afterwards.

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