Rishi Sunak proved unable to stand up to “a cartoon bully with a pet spider”, Keir Starmer said during PMQs as he focused on the departure of Gavin Williamson from the cabinet to castigate the prime minister for being weak and lacking principle.
Hours after Williamson stepped down as a minister after a series of allegations about bullying and abusive messages, Starmer used prime minister’s questions to condemn Sunak for having appointed Williamson to the government and then expressing “great sadness” at his departure.
