Rishi Sunak has been facing his second Prime Minister's Questions
As overcrowding continues at Manston migrant processing centre in Kent, Labour's Keir Starmer presses the PM on why the asylum system is "broken"
Sunak counters by saying Labour has voted against laws that would solve immigration problems
But Starmer says the Rwanda policy has cost £140m and hasn't led to any deportations - why can't Sunak get a "proper home secretary" instead of Suella Braverman, he asks
Sunak responds that Labour aren't coming up with any solutions and says he wants to remind Starmer that he supported Jeremy Corbyn
In response to a question from a Labour MP about why he hasn't sacked Braverman, Sunak repeated she had admitted mistakes and was getting on with her job
There is severe overcrowding at Manston with a recent resident telling the BBC people were treated like "animals"
The number of migrants who have crossed the channel this year is nearing 40,000
Earlier this morning Sunak U-turned on a decision not to attend the COP27 climate summit in Egypt after facing criticism
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Chris Mason
Political editor
This was a difficult PMQs for the new prime minister for two reasons.
Firstly, he is Conservative prime minister number five after 12 years of Conservative government, and so there is nowhere to hide and no-one else to blame when things go wrong.
And secondly, because of the bluntness of his home secretary.
Suella Braverman said the other day that illegal immigration was "out of control".
And Sunak was forced to admit the speed of processing asylum claims isn’t good enough.
The prime minister is, for now, managing to keep his side on side - with tribal stuff that Conservative MPs lap up about Keir Starmer having wanted Jeremy Corbyn to become prime minister.
But you have to wonder about the shelf life of those attack lines as the problems for the government stack up.
PMQs: PM Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer at PMQs - in full
We're going to end today's live UK politics coverage soon, but before that here's a recap of all the key events from today.
COP U-turn: UK PM Rishi Sunak kicked off today's proceedings by announcing he would in fact be attending COP27 in Egypt, following criticism after he said he was skipping the climate summit to focus on domestic issues. Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner accused him of being "dragged kicking and screaming into doing the right thing".
Tough PMQs for Sunak: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer focused on immigration at this week's stand off. In a tense exchange, the PM pointed out the Tories had delivered Brexit and ended the free movement of people from the EU, but Starmer argued that problems with the controversial Rwanda policy and Manston processing centre showed Sunak "hasn't got a grip".
And in a clear sign that the issue of Suella Braverman's reappointment to the Home Office isn't going away, Starmer asked whether the home secretary had received legal advice that she should move people out of Manston, which Sunak neither confirmed nor denied. The PM did, however, say Braverman was taking significant steps to tackle the problems.
Under review: Following PMQs, Downing Street revealed that the government is currently "considering all of" Sunak's campaign promises from over the summer and asking "what is deliverable and what is possible". His press secretary said the context, especially economically, had changed since the promises were made.
Imogen Foulkes
Reporting from Geneva
Image source, ReutersThe UN's new human rights chief Volker Türk previously worked for the UN refugee agency
The new United Nations Human Rights Commissioner has described the use of the word "invasion" - by UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman - in the context of migrants arriving in the UK as "horrible".
Volker Türk, who previously worked for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, was speaking in Geneva.
He said: “Invasion: horrible word. It absolutely is the problem that we often see. I know that very well from my previous position - I lived through this in 2015 and 2016 when I was Assistant High Commissioner for Protection - the types of words and dehumanising language that I have heard from European politicians during that period is harrowing."
He said work was needed to ensure "it doesn’t poison and add fuel to the fire on issues that are about human beings".
"I’m glad that there is a strong reaction in Britain to that use of the word,” he added.
Image source, ReutersDespite some signs of recovery under Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives will find it “extremely difficult” to win the next general election, a polling expert has said.
Sir John Curtice, president of the British Polling Council, said that while Sunak is considerably more popular than his party, voters were unlikely to forgive the Tories for the economic turmoil under Liz Truss’s premiership.
"No government that has presided over a financial crisis has eventually survived at the ballot box. Voters don't forget governments being forced to do a U-turn by the financial markets," he said at a briefing for journalists in Westminster.
He said that Truss had been “virtually unique” as a new leader in falling to secure a “honeymoon bounce” after replacing Boris Johnson as PM in September.
"I think arguably this is as bad as it ever was for a government," he said, referring to the fall-out from the mini-budget she introduced with her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, which left the Conservatives more than 30 points behind Labour in most polls.
Sunak, however, is “relatively popular” and polls higher than Labour leader Keir Starmer on the question of who is strongest on the economy.
"The real question is to what extent is Sunak going to be able to transfer his personal popularity into popularity for his party," he said.
Dominic Casciani
Legal Correspondent
Since last year, government ministers have been increasingly using the phrase “illegal migrants” or "illegal crossings" to describe people crossing the English Channel.
Some people have applauded the government for using these phrases - and some have criticised the words for, in their view, demonising vulnerable people escaping war-torn parts of the world.
At the end of June, a new crime of “illegal arrival” came into being.
This means that it is now an offence to physically arrive on the shores of the UK without Home Office permission - and it could lead to up to four years in jail.
The crime was created in this year's Nationality and Borders Act - but it's already being hotly disputed.
It's not for ministers to decide who's guilty of a crime - that can only be decided in an independent criminal court.
The Crown Prosecution Service, and its counterpart in Scotland, authorise criminal charges - and its lawyers must also take into account the wider "public interest".
There are often good reasons not to prosecute someone. Migration law experts say one of those in this case would be that the offence would criminalise people who may have a case for protection.
So in short, while the new crime exists, it's too early to say whether it will be used widely - or whether it will eventually be abandoned as unworkable.
You can read more from Dominic Casciani on the UK asylum systerm here: What's behind the Home Office migrant backlog?
Reality Check
Asked what the government was doing about speeding up the processing of asylum claims, the prime minister said: “We’ve increased the number of processing officials by 80%”.
Home Office official Abi Tierney told a committee of MPs a week ago that they had increased the number of asylum decision makers by 584 to 1,073, which is an increase of 119%, although neither she nor the prime minister gave a time period.
In the same session, David Neal, independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, said the figure for decision makers was 1,090, with another 139 coming online in November.
Mr Neal’s report on asylum casework, external from last year put the number of decision makers in March 2021 at just under 600. If that has now been increased to 1,090 that would be an increase of about 80%.
We have asked the Home Office where the 80% figure came from.
Chris Mason
Political editor
Image source, PA MediaDowning Street has said all of Rishi Sunak’s campaign promises over the summer are under review - meaning he is no longer committed to the specifics of any of them.
His press secretary explained the government was "considering all of them" and asking "what is deliverable and what is possible".
"We are looking at the prime minister’s leadership campaign pledges and working out whether now is the right time to bring them forward," the press secretary added.
Asked why the promises had been made if they weren’t deliverable, they told reporters these were promises made "a few months ago" and that "the context, especially economically, had changed significantly since that time".
We were told "we are committed to the sentiment of them" and it was reiterated that Sunak is committed to the "promise of the manifesto" rather than, necessarily, all of the individual promises within it.
Reality Check
At Prime Minister's Questions, Conservative MP Scott Benton said that taxpayers face “a bill of £5.6m per day” to accommodate “nearly 40,000 illegal immigrants who crossed the Channel this year”.
We’ve heard that figure before from Abi Tierney, director general for customer services capability at the Home Office.
She told a committee of MPs a week ago that the cost of hotel accommodation for asylum seekers was £5.6m a day, although that was the figure for all asylum seekers, not just those who had arrived in small boats.
It’s also not just for those who arrived this year - we know that only 4% of those who arrived in small boats in 2021 have had an asylum decision.
Ms Tierney said that on top of that, £1.2m per day is spent on hotel accommodation for people brought over from Afghanistan, bringing the bill to a total of £6.8m a day.
If you're just joining us or need a recap, Rishi Sunak has just taken his second Prime Minister's Questions since taking office. Here's what you need to know:
Immigration
Braverman
Other points raised
Watch the full exchange between Starmer and Sunak here.
Reality Check
Labour leader Keir Starmer asked the prime minister how many asylum claims from those who arrived in the UK on small boats last year had been processed.
Rishi Sunak didn't give a figure in his reply but Mr Starmer went on to say 4% of them.
This is correct.
Speaking to the Home Affairs Committee last week, Dan Hobbs - Director of Asylum, Protection and Enforcement at the Home Office - said about small boat arrivals in 2021: “96% of those claims remain outstanding".
He added that of the 4% of claims which had been processed, around 85% were given asylum.
You can read more about the backlog in asylum applications - and the problems it is causing - here.
WATCH: Sunak v Starmer - PMQs in full
Prime Minister's Questions was dominated by questions over the government's handling of immigration. Labour leader Keir Starmer got straight to the point asking: "Who broke the asylum system?"
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended Home Secretary Suella Braverman, saying she has taken "significant action" to fix the problem of finding accommodation for migrants.
As we bring you some of the questions from MPs in the Commons, we'll take you back to one we missed a little earlier from Conservative MP Jerome Mayhew.
He asked about compensation for farmers suffering the "worst outbreak ever recorded" of avian flu.
He said hundreds of thousands of birds were being destroyed to stem the spread of the disease.
Today is Back British Farming Day, and Mayhew asked whether the PM would take the opportunity to compensate farmers for all affected birds from the date when disease is confirmed.
Sunak said Mayhew was right to highlight the outbreak and said the government had toughened up biosecurity measures. He said compensation would now be paid at the outset of planned culling rather than the end.
Image source, .Labour MP Barry Sheerman asks Sunak if it's the case that since he resigned as chancellor on 5 July 2022 we've had "the most turbulent economic and political disaster in our country" in living memory.
Sheerman asks why Sunak "did not help ordinary working people as well as he could" when he was chancellor. This is met with shouts of ridicule from Conservative MPs.
Sheerman goes on to ask whether the PM will take the opportunity to tax non-doms [non-domiciled individuals] "getting away with avoiding tax" and if he'll bring in a windfall tax on the gas and oil industry.
The PM responds that he's very proud of his record as chancellor and suggests Sheerman talks to the "10 million people who had their jobs saved through furlough".
Sunak adds that "this will always be a fair and compassionate government" that has the most vulnerable at the heart of its decisions.
Watch: Sunak confronted over '£600 cost' of hospital parking for NHS staff
Labour's Taiwo Owatemi confronts Sunak about staff at her local Coventry hospital, who she says are having to pay to park at work.
She says they are paying £600 a year to do so, asking when the PM "will stop hammering working people in my community?".
Sunak says the government introduced a temporary policy of free parking during the Covid-19 pandemic, adding that the NHS trusts which have resumed charging have introduced free parking for people in the greatest need, including hard-working NHS staff who work overnight.
Conservative MP Vicky Ford says it's "great" the prime minister is now attending COP27 in Egypt and she knows he "cares" about climate change.
“It’s vital that we remain world leaders on climate change," she says, asking if Sunak will confirm the UK will fulfil the promises it made at the last COP summit in Glasgow.
In response, Sunak repeats almost word-for-word a tweet he posted earlier, external, saying: "There is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change and there is no energy security without investment in renewables.
"That’s why I will attend COP27 next week - to deliver on Glasgow’s legacy of building a secure, clean and sustainable future."
Image source, .Labour MP Chris Bryant is faced with noise from the Tory benches as he takes to his feet and he comments he "won't be bullied into silence" - in reference to a fracking vote which triggered a Commons investigation.
The MP for Rhondda says with the UK facing high tax rates, soaring food inflation and rising mortgage rates, what is it about the the Tories' 12-year rule which has made such a mess of the country.
Rishi Sunak replies that Bryant failed to mention the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and the "illegal war" in Ukraine which has disrupted supply chains.
He vows to deliver for the British people.
Over to the SNP's Tommy Sheppard, who's asking Sunak a question on the war in Ukraine.
Citing Russia's "illegal annexation" of parts of Ukraine, Sheppard, who represents Edinburgh East, asks the PM if he'll "recommit... to pursuing the full and proper accountability, including through the ICC [International Criminal Court] of those who violate international law in territories that they occupy".
He also urges Sunak to commit to the Fourth Geneva Convention, which applies to the protection of civilians in military-occupied areas.
PM Sunak says his government will continue with the policy mentioned, "which the previous government put in place".
He adds the UK should be "proud" of supporting Ukraine. "What we are hearing [from Ukraine] is abhorrent, it's wrong and those who are conducting these things must be held to account," he says.
Conservative MP Dr Julian Lewis asks if the prime minister will assist people who face losing their homes over unaffordable mortgage increases.
Sunak says the rising cost of home loans is why it's essential the government gets the public finances in order, as this will limit the rises in interest rates being set by the Bank of England.
He doesn't answer about specific help for people who might lose their homes, but does say there is existing support for people in the welfare system who need help with mortgages in the short term - directing Lewis to point his constituents towards this.
Image source, .Lib Dem MP Jamie Stone raises the case of one of his constituents, who is a supermarket worker on universal credit.
Because she receives one double salary payment for one month, there is one month of the year where she receives no universal credit. Stone explains that because some cost-of-living payments are linked to universal credit this means she no longer qualifies for a £320 payment to help her through the winter.
He asks what the prime minister can do to deal with this gap.
In response, Sunak says the government has provided "discretionary funding" especially to deal with cases like this but he is happy to look into this specific individual's situation.