Angela Rayner is standing in for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions as the Government scrambles to defuse an unprecedented Labour rebellion over proposed benefit cuts.

Angela Rayner is standing in for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions as the Government scrambles to defuse an unprecedented Labour rebellion over proposed benefit cuts.

Angela Rayner stepping in for Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs

The deputy prime minister insisted the government will not back down over its planned vote on welfare reform next Tuesday

Mel Stride welcomed Rayner to PMQs ‘for the second week running’, adding that many behind her ‘wish this was a permanent arrangement’