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Keir Starmer accuses Conservatives of ‘dancing to tune’ set by Nigel Farage

Source: PA Wire

Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives are dancing to a tune set by Nigel Farage, Sir Keir Starmer has claimed.

The Labour leader used his headline Commons slot at Prime Minister’s Questions to suggest the governing party was no “longer the Tories your parents voted for” and had become the “political wing of the Flat Earth Society”, as he mocked former prime minister Liz Truss.

But Mr Sunak hit back, drawing attention to Labour’s record on antisemitism ahead of Thursday’s Rochdale by-election.

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