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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch begins by echoing Starmer's comments on VE day, saying she looks forward to commemorating it tomorrow.

Moving on to her first question, she asks the prime minister if he was "wrong" to remove the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners.

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Starmer begins by addressing rising tensions between India and Pakistan, saying the situation "will be of serious concern for many across Britain".

He says the government is engaging urgently with both countries and others to encourage dialogue, de-escalation and the protection of civilians.

He also says the UK will fall silent tomorrow to remember VE Day, and says the "landmark" trade deal with India announced yesterday is a "huge win".

MPs are in their seats and Starmer has been called to the dispatch box, meaning PMQs is about to get under way.

A reminder you can follow along by pressing watch live at the top of this page - we'll have updates throughout.

Brian Wheeler
Political reporter

This is the first Prime Minister’s Questions since a pretty seismic set of English local election results.

Both main parties - Labour and the Conservatives - had a terrible night at the polls, but Keir Starmer is the leader feeling the heat from his own MPs, with growing calls for him to change direction on winter fuel payments and disability benefit cuts.

The Conservatives fared even worse last Thursday, losing control of 16 councils, but open attacks on Kemi Badenoch’s leadership have so far been limited to local Tory councillors who lost their seats.

This being the House of Commons, both Badenoch and Starmer will be greeted by loud cheers from their own sides.

But many MPs will have seen the latest YouGov poll this morning, which appears to confirm how much trouble the Conservatives in particular are in with the electorate, and how Reform UK’s advance seems unstoppable right now.

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One thing that Starmer may be quizzed on is the recent UK-India trade deal.

The government has hit back against claims by opposition parties that the newly-agreed agreement could disadvantage British workers.

One part of the deal extends an exemption on national insurance contributions (Nics) from one to three years - meaning people on short-term visas will only make payments in their home country while working abroad.

Opposition parties claim this could mean Indian workers are cheaper to employ than British workers - not least since UK employer Nics have just risen. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claims she had refused a similar trade-off when she was business secretary.

But Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds tells the BBC there is "no situation" in which he would "ever tolerate" British workers being undercut as a result of a trade agreement.

Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

There is no doubt that Reform UK performed well in Thursday's local council elections. The party won most votes, most seats and overall control of most councils.

True, the party's share of the votes cast across all 23 councils where elections took place on Thursday was no more than 31%. So despite doing well, it secured far from a majority of those voting.

However, its performance was enough to put Reform well ahead of the Conservatives – who traditionally dominate county councils - on 23%, the Liberal Democrats on 17% and Labour on 14% when you tally up the votes in those parts of England that went to the polls on Thursday.

At the 2024 general election, Reform secured 14% of the vote but just 5 out of 650 seats at Westminster.

Its tally of 677 council seats won represents 41% of all those being contested last Thursday.

• Read Sir John Curtice’s analysis of the Reform vote share

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There is disquiet among Labour MPs following Reform's remarkable results at the local elections, so Keir Starmer may not receive an easy ride from his own backbenchers later.

This morning, a group of around 45 Labour MPs has called on the government to "act now" to win back voters in northern England and the Midlands.

The Labour Red Wall Group, which represents areas which have traditionally supported the party, says it is not "weak" to respond to issues raised by the public, including concern over axing winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.

Calls to rethink the move and other policies including cuts to disability benefits have been growing after a disastrous set of local election results for Labour last week - but the government insists it will not be "blown off course" by the "disappointing" results.

• Act now to win back Red Wall voters, Labour MPs say

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As we've just mentioned, the results from local elections held in parts of England last week will likely be a pressure point for both Starmer and Badenoch today. To get you up to date, here’s a look at four key takeaways:

• Knife-edge win for Reform in Runcorn - After an early-morning recount, Sarah Pochin won her party’s first Parliamentary by-election in what was previously a Labour seat. She took it for Reform by just six votes
• A night of many firsts for Reform - Nigel Farage's party secured its first mayoral contest, with former Tory MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns winning in Greater Lincolnshire - and then repeated that victory in Hull & East Yorkshire, where former boxer Luke Campbell won his mayoral race
• The Lib Dems scoop the Tories - Ed Davey's party boosted its overall number of seats by more than 150 and took control of Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Shropshire County Councils - dozens of those seats came at the expense of the Conservatives
• Labour recovers some ground - Keir Starmer's party picked up a trio of mayoral races - in North Tyneside, Doncaster and West of England - but the Reform candidates in each of those contests trailed closely in second

Want more? Read our day-after explainer, or dig into Sir John Curtice's latest, which analyses why Reform's sweeping election wins are shaking Tory and Labour dominance.

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Today it's the first Prime Minister's Questions since local elections in England, where the two main political parties - Labour and the Conservatives - suffered heavy losses, with Nigel Farage's Reform UK making gains.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party lost 187 councillors, as well as the Runcorn by-election to Reform.

Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives lost 674 seats, and control over 16 councils in total - nine to reform and three to the Liberal Democrats.

So it's safe to say that focusing on the results may not feature too highly on their list of priorities this week.

But there's plenty more to discuss - stick with us for all the build up to PMQs at 12:00 BST, which you'll be able to stream by hitting watch live at the top of the page.