Sarah Pochin, Reform’s newest MP used up her first question during Prime Minister’s Questions in order to, out of the blue, ask whether Keir Starmer would ban the burqa. The burqa is an outer garment worn by some Muslim women that covers the body and face.
Starmer’s answer was no. And he took another chance to have a go at Reform for their wildly irresponsible plans to cut taxes.
Can I welcome her to her place, but I’m not going to follow her down that line.
But now she is here and safely in her place, perhaps she could tell her new party leader that his latest plan to bet £80billion of unfunded tax cuts, with no idea how he’s going to pay for it, is Liz Truss all over again
Even the chairman of the Reform party itself thinks her question was “dumb”.
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