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As we’ve mentioned, there’s no PMQs next week because Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will instead be outlining his spring Budget.

The Budget details the government's plans for raising or lowering taxes and sets out its spending commitments for health, schools, police and other public services.

There are reports the chancellor is set to unveil cuts to National Insurance and Inheritance Tax, plus a tax on vapes.

Crucially, this could also be the last big fiscal set piece from the government before the general election.

• Read more about this year’s Budget here

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It's the most nail-biting time of the year (or latter half of the month).

Just two weeks ago, the Tories faced a double loss in the Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections.

And tomorrow, voters will take to the polls in Rochdale to choose their next MP, replacing Sir Tony Lloyd, who died earlier this year.

It’s been an election race like no other.

Labour withdrew its support for candidate Azhar Ali over allegedly antisemitic remarks, for which he has apologised. And he’s going up against two ex-Labour MPs - George Galloway, for the Workers Party for Britain, and Simon Danczuk, the Reform UK candidate.

Labour currently holds this seat with 60 elected councillors: 46 Labour, 9 Conservative, 3 Liberal Democrats and 2 Middleton Independents.

While we wait for PMQs to start, you can read our political editor Chris Mason’s reflections on his recent visit to Rochdale.

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been spotted leaving Downing Street and is now on his way to the House of Commons.

It's a short journey, so sit tight - things will be getting underway very soon.

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Born in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, to a family of coal miners, he followed in the footsteps of his father by working in the local pits for 10 years after leaving school.

After separating from his partner, he raised his two sons as a single parent, on what he described as a "meagre wage".

He went on to volunteer at a local Citizens Advice centre before working in hostels for homeless care leavers.

Previously a Labour councillor, he defected to the Tories in March 2018, saying his former party had been "taken over by the hard-left". He was elected as a Conservative MP the following year.

Even his election campaign didn’t go smoothly. He appeared to be caught setting up a door knock while out canvassing.

During a visit, a microphone picked up Anderson asking a voter not to mention he was his friend during filming.

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Likely to come up at PMQs this week is the row over former Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson.

During his weekly GB News show on Friday, Anderson claimed "Islamists" had "got control" of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of the city.

After refusing to apologise for the remarks - arguing that to do so "would be a sign of weakness" - he had the Conservative whip removed. He is now sitting as an independent MP for his constituency of Ashfield.

Anderson had been responding to an article by Suella Braverman, in which the former home secretary claimed “the Islamists, the extremists and the antisemites are in charge now”.

When speaking about the situation on BBC Radio York on Monday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak denied the Tory party has “Islamophobic tendencies” and condemned Anderson’s comments as “unacceptable” and “wrong”.

No 10 later said it had been wrong for Anderson to conflate “all Muslims with Islamist extremism”.

Chris Mason
Political editor

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The centrepiece parliamentary moment of the week is Prime Minister's Question Time.

Normally, that means all eyes on the prime minister, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and others.

But today will feel different.

All eyes will be on the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle.

And for a simple reason: Can the man who famously demands "Order! Order!" actually command order and authority at Westminster's most rowdy moment?

It's a week on from the colossal row over a debate on the Israel-Hamas war, where the Scottish National Party felt, bluntly, that they were done over by the Speaker.

Their anger has deepened after another debate on the issue the SNP requested was rejected. Meanwhile, the number of MPs signing a Commons motion saying they have no confidence in Hoyle has ticked up, external to 87.

You can read Chris’ full take here.

While we don’t know exactly what topics MPs will raise during today’s PMQs, some of the events of the last week are likely to feature - and what a week its been.

Here’s a reminder of the key developments:

• Labour is likely to bring up comments made by former Conservative deputy chairman MP Lee Anderson, who was suspended as a Tory MP after he said “Islamists” had “got control” of London Mayor Sadiq Khan - and then refused to apologise for the remarks
• Issues of tax, spending and the cost of living could also be an important focus, since this is the last PMQs before next week’s spring Budget is announced
• And we may hear about the ongoing row over Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s handling of last week’s Gaza ceasefire vote, which sparked fury among SNP and Conservative MPs

We'll have more detail on all of this shortly.

Emily Atkinson
Live reporter

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Good morning and welcome to our weekly coverage of Prime Minister's Questions.

Rishi Sunak will be at the despatch box within the hour to take questions from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, as well as other MPs.

This time last week, the House of Commons was hours away from descending into chaos over a vote about a ceasefire in Gaza - leading to more than 85 MPs calling for Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to resign.

Since then, the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson, has been suspended for saying London Mayor Sadiq Khan was controlled by Islamists, and then refusing to apologise for his remarks.

And last night, Conservative MP Scott Benton was suspended from the Commons for 35 days over his role in a lobbying scandal, meaning Sunak faces the prospect of another difficult by-election.

We’ll soon find out what questions Starmer has for Sunak - so stick around for live updates and political analysis.

You’ll also be able to follow what’s happening inside the chamber live by clicking the Play button at the top of the page.