Marita Moloney
Live reporter

That's a wrap of our coverage of this week's Prime Minister's Questions from the House of Commons, thanks for joining us.

As anticipated, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer largely focused his questions to the PM on the row within the Conservative Party following Boris Johnson's honour list nominations.

Starmer also homed in on the cost of living crisis and "spiralling mortgage rates".

As our political editor Chris Mason notes, Starmer tried "to tie together a fragile economy with a claim the Conservatives’ minds have been elsewhere with the Boris Johnson drama".

In turn, the prime minister insisted that due process was followed and hit back at Labour's own record on peerages and the economy.

If you want to read more, here's the latest from our Business team on interest rates, and from our Politics specialists on the asylum backlog.

Today's coverage was brought to you by Heather Sharp, Oliver Slow, Charley Adams, Kate Whannel, Chas Geiger, Emaan Warraich and myself. We'll be back next week for PMQs, so until then, it's goodbye from us.

We'll be closing our coverage of PMQs shortly, but here are a few key points from today's clash in the Commons:

• MPs from across the House expressed sorrow following the attacks in Nottingham
• They also remembered the victims of the Grenfell tragedy, six years after the tower block fire
• Starmer criticised Sunak for spending more time on honours and Tory in-fighting than on issues such as the economy or the asylum system
• He said the UK was paying the price for "Tory chaos" and called for a general election
• Sunak hit back, attacking Labour's energy policy, which he said would lead to "jobs for Russian workers"
• He said his government had delivered record employment and fast wage growth
• The SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn asked the PM to apologise for "the cycle of misery Brexit has caused"
• Sunak said he was helping protect 200,000 jobs in northern Scotland by supporting the oil and gas industry
• Other questions covered violence against women in Northern Ireland, housing targets and restrictions on unhealthy snack deals

Journalists have been asking the PM's spokesman about Nadine Dorries at the daily question session.

Dorries announced her decision to step down "with immediate effect" as MP for Mid-Bedfordshire last Friday.

However, unlike her fellow Conservatives, Boris Johnson and Nigel Adams, she has not yet officially resigned.

Downing Street said the situation was "unusual" and added that Rishi Sunak would welcome "certainty".

The prime minister's spokesman said Sunak believed "the people of Mid Bedfordshire deserve proper representation".

You can read more about this, and why the timings matter, here.

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Has child poverty fallen?published at 13:34 British Summer Time 14 June 2023

13:34 BST 14 June 2023

During PMQs, Labour MP Kim Johnson claimed that the government’s austerity measures “have plunged 4.2 million children into poverty”.

Rishi Sunak replied that there are “400,000 fewer children in absolute poverty than in 2010”.

The two of them are referring to different measures of child poverty.

The prime minister was using absolute poverty, which is defined as being below 60% of median household income in 2010-11 (adjusted for rising prices).

Median income is the level at which half of households have higher income and half have lower.

In 2021-22 (the latest figures, external) there were 3.3 million children in that position in the UK after housing costs, which is down 300,000 (and not 400,000) from 2010-11.

However, there’s another measure - relative poverty - which is below 60% of median household income today.

The number of children living in relative poverty was 4.2 million in 2021-22 - as Johnson said. But they have not all been "plunged... into poverty" by the current government - the figure has risen 600,000 since 2010-11.

PMQs returns to broader themes as Labour pins blame on Toriespublished at 13:29 British Summer Time 14 June 2023

13:29 BST 14 June 2023

Chris Mason
Political editor

After several days of noise about the current prime minister and the one before last, there was a sense in PMQs today of a return to broader themes impacting millions of people - the economy, inflation, interest rates.

At the top of government there is a keen awareness that inflation is proving "sticky" to use the euphemism - it is staying higher for longer than hoped.

The prime minister still thinks his promise of halving it will be kept.

Labour are keen to continue to pin the blame for economic peril on the Tories.

We can expect them to carry on saying so every day until the next election.

It is an argument we will hear from the SNP too - who also pin some of the blame directly on Brexit.

They will continue to argue the Conservatives and Labour are too similar - as they begin to feel the heat of a potential Labour revival in Scotland.

Earlier, as PMQs was drawing to an end, Lilian Greenwood, Labour MP for Nottingham South, said the city had been "devastated" by yesterday's "senseless attacks". The thoughts and prayers of the whole city were with the families of those killed and injured, she said.

It was "absolutely heartbreaking" to see pictures of the two Nottingham University students whose lives had been "tragically cut short", she added.

Greenwood urged the PM to ensure that the police, universities and others in the city were provided with everything they needed to support the people of Nottingham following these "horrendous events".

Sunak said he had been moved by the "heartbreaking tributes" to the two students from their loved ones.

This was an "extraordinarily difficult time, every parent's worst nightmare", and the hearts of the whole country were with the families of those who had lost their lives, he added.

For more on the attacks, you can follow our live coverage here.

We've now also heard from the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, who said she shares Braverman's sentiments after the attacks in Nottingham.

She welcomed the involvement of the counter-terror police at this early stage in the investigation, something she says she has called for in the past.

She asked the home secretary to set out what support is available for families and friends of those affected.

Cooper also expressed her support for Nottingham Police in their investigation and solidarity with the victims and their families.

After PMQs ended, home secretary Suella Braverman delivered a statement to the House of Commons on yesterday’s attack in Nottingham.

She says she extends a “hand of friendship” to the people of Nottingham, and that she is being fully informed of what is happening and receiving regular updates.

She says that while people want answers as to what happened, it’s important that due process is followed and we must ensure answers are wholly accurate.

She says that Nottingham police are being assisted by counter-terrorism police, although she says this does not mean it is currently being treated as a terrorist attack.

Braverman ends by saying that the country must come together at a moment like this, and that the people of Nottingham will have “every resource of the state” that is available.

PM’s stats on jobs and wages don’t give the full picturepublished at 12:51 British Summer Time 14 June 2023

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told MPs that his government is "delivering record employment and the fastest wage growth in years".

Both statistics are true, but do not giving the full picture.

The number of people in employment is indeed at a record level, but if you take into account the size of the population by looking at the rate of employment, we still haven’t returned to the levels we saw just before the pandemic.

It is also correct to say that the average salary is growing faster than it has for 20 years (outside the pandemic).

Wages grew by just over 7% in the year to April, largely driven by increases in the private sector.

But prices are rising faster - best-in-20-year wage rises can’t keep pace with worst-in-40-years inflation.

PMQs is over now, but we'll just catch you up on Labour's Stephen Doughty's question.

He raised the issue of people struggling with housing affodability, saying there is a worsening crisis for home owners and renters.

Sunak says the number one priority is to halve inflation so the upward pressure on interest rates can be reduced.

He says there is support for home owners who are worried, through the mortage interest payments scheme.

Sunak also says the chancellor has spoken with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to ensure that banks treat all those in difficulty with the fairness and compassion that they need.

Chris Mason
Political editor

During PMQs, the House listened in silence to the Labour MP for Nottingham South, Lilian Greenwood, reflecting on the attacks in her home city.Three Labour MPs who each represent different parts of the city were sitting together in the Commons, each wearing black.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is making a statement about the tragic incidents in Nottingham on Tuesday in the Commons now.

You can follow along on our Nottingham-focussed live page here.

Chris Mason
Political editor

That's a wrap on this week's PMQs. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer attempted to tie together a fragile economy with a claim the Conservatives’ minds have been elsewhere with the Boris Johnson drama.

Starmer sought to weaponise the prime minister’s insistence he didn’t intervene in any way on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list — arguing he should hand done and vetoed it — and asking if he would do that with Liz Truss’s list.

Downing Street has consistently said it has followed convention by effectively acting as little more than a postman on the honours list - passing it on between arms of the state and not meddling with it.

Conservative MP Philip Davies criticises former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, saying one of the legacies he left behind was restrictions on multibuy deals for unhealthy drinks and snacks.

Davies says this was an "idiotic" policy and a triumph for the nanny state, adding that during a cost of living crisis it is "bonkers".

He urges Sunak to scrap the policy and to pursue a more Conservative agenda.

Sunak says he has postponed the policy but that no final decisions have been made.

Claire Hanna of the SDLP tells MPs that 39 women have died violently since 2017 in Northern Ireland and that the region is one of the most dangerous places in Europe to be a woman.

She says progress and funding in this area is being stymied by "the demoralising absence of government" in Northern Ireland.

Sunak says people in Northern Ireland are "not getting the local government they deserve" and adds he will "continue to work hard to bring that about".

Labour MP for Bedford Mohammad Yasin says funding for mental health services in his constituency can not be released because of what he calls the government's "ridiculous" capital spending limits.

Will Sunak make sure his constituents do not have to travel miles for these services?

The PM says the government is investing record sums in the NHS and planning the largest expansion of mental health services in a generation.

Labour MP Virednra Sharma raises the conflict in Ukraine, in particular next week's Ukraine Recovery Conference, which will take place in London.

Sharma says the aim of the conference should be to ensure telecoms recovery in the country so that the people of Ukraine can stay connected with their loved ones.

Sunak says the aim of the conference will be to ensure how to bring private capital to help rebuild Ukraine, saying those companies that the Ukrainian people deserve support and admiration.

Labour's Taiwo Owatemi tells MPs about the case of one of her constituents, whose father, a veteran, has cancer and heart problems.

His next appointment was not scheduled until November, so he had to pay for private care.

Owatemi accuses the Conservatives of having "broken the NHS" and urges the prime minister to call a general election.

Sunak says he is very sorry to hear about the case and adds that his government is investing record sums in the NHS.

Labour MP Fabian Hamilton raises the issue of housing, asking the PM if he agrees it was wrong to scrap housing targets.

Sunak says he "makes no apology" for respecting what local communities want, and accuses Labour of wanting to "impose top-down policies" and of carpeting over the green belt.