PMQs LIVE: MPs erupt as Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer clash over migration

Kemi Badenoch said there are “very serious questions” being asked about the Attorney General Lord Hermer.

Mrs Badenoch said: “If we are serious about protecting our borders we need to make sure we appoint people who believe in our country and everything we stand for.

“It is not clear the Attorney General does. The Government is now recruiting a new chief inspector of borders who lives in Finland and wants to work from home. This is not serious. Why should the British public put up with this?”

Sir said the appointment for the borders role will be “working from the United Kingdom full time”.

He then said: “She talks about the Attorney General. She sat round the Cabinet table with an attorney who was later sacked for breaching national security.”

Sir has insisted farming is a priority to him after comments made by minister Daniel Zeichner.

A British passport should be a privilege not a right, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told the Commons, as she called for the process on indefinite leave to remain to be toughened.

Mrs Badenoch said: “He didn’t listen to question one, I asked if he would appeal the decision. He did not answer that, he’s not listening, he’s too busy defending the international human rights law framework.

“This case has arisen because a Palestinian came to the UK from Gaza in 2007, he is now a British citizen. This is precisely why we need to break the conveyor belt from arriving in the UK, to acquiring indefinite leave to remain, and then a British passport, and now a right to bring six family members here as well.

“Just last week, the Prime Minister bizarrely claimed that a British passport was not a pull factor for those coming to the UK. Will he now support our plans to toughen the process on indefinite leave to remain and make getting a British passport a privilege, not a right?”

Prime Minister Sir replied: “They presided over record high levels of immigration, it reached nearly one million. It was a one nation experiment in open borders, and she was the cheerleader, she was the one campaigning for more people to come.”

He added: “So before she lectures us, I think she should just reflect on her own record.”

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch went studs up on the Prime Minister in a row over asylum seekers from Gaza.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey suggested Sir impose retaliatory tariffs on ‘s US – staring with Elon musk’s Tesla electic cars.

Sir Ed said: The Prime Minister has so far sat back and allowed and his sidekick to ride roughshod over UK interests while the and cheer them on.

“The government needs to draw up plans for Tesla tariffs to hit Musk where it hurts, if Trump’s administration follows through with their threats to the UK steel industry.

“Sitting back and hoping Trump won’t hurt us just isn’t going to work. The only way we can tackle Trump and Musk is by negotiating from a position of strength and showing that the UK will not be bullied from across the pond.”

But Sir Keir swerves that and says that the steel industry is “essential part of heartlands” and threats need “level headed assessment”.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch urged Sir to put the UK’s national interest before the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and change Article 8.

At Prime Minister’s Questions, Mrs Badenoch said: “Given this crazy decision and so many others, new legislation is needed to clarify the right to a family life in Article 8 – I’m not talking about what he just said, I know Labour MPs don’t understand much of what they’re saying, but the Prime Minister literally wrote a book on the European Convention on Human Rights.

“This is a situation where we need to put our national interest before the ECHR. Does he agree that we should legislate, even if lawyers warn that this might be incompatible with human rights law?”

The Prime Minister replied: “She complains about scripted answers and questions, her script doesn’t allow her to listen to the answer.

“She asked me if we’re going to change the law and close the loophole in question one, I said yes. She asked me again in question two, and I said yes. She asked me again in question three, it’s still yes.”

The Tory leader said: “We cannot be in a situation where we allow enormous numbers of people to exploit our laws in this wa.

Sir said the Government was already making changes “because we are taking control”.

Sir has been grilled on the case of Palestinian migrants who were granted the right to live in the UK after applying through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees.

The Tory leader said the decision was “completely wrong, it cannot be allowed to stand” and asked the Prime Minister if the Government will appeal.

Sir Keir replied: “I do not agree with the decision. She is right, it is the wrong decision. She hasn’t quite done her homework because the decision in question was taken under the last government.”

The Prime Minister said it “should be parliament that makes the rules on immigration, it should be the government that makes the policy, that is the principle and the Home Secretary is already looking at the legal loophole which we need to close in this particular case”.

Sir said the Government is working to close a “legal loophole” after a Palestinian family were granted the right to live in the UK following an appeal, after they applied to enter the country through a scheme designed for Ukrainian refugees.

Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch said during Prime Ministers Questions: “The Conservative government established the family scheme, and in total over 200,000 Ukrainians, mostly women, children and the elderly, have found sanctuary in the UK from Putin’s war. However, a family-of-six from Gaza have applied to live in Britain using this scheme, and a judge has now ruled in their favour.

“This is not what the scheme was designed to do. This decision is completely wrong. It cannot be allowed to stand. Is the Government planning to appeal on any points of law, and if so, which ones?”

The Prime Minister replied: “I do not agree with the decision. She’s right, it’s the wrong decision. She hasn’t quite done her homework, because the decision in question was taken under the last government according to the legal framework for the last government.

“But let me be clear, it should be Parliament that makes the rules on immigration. It should be the Government that makes the policy, that is the principle, and the Home Secretary is already looking at the legal loophole which we need to close in this particular case.”

Prime Minister’s Questions has started.

Kemi Badenoch has just risen to her feet to ask about a family from Gaza who used the visa scheme for residency in the UK.

Another issue that could come up at PMQs is the economy.

Rachel Reeves has received a major blow after the UK’s economic watchdog delivered its first verdict on the state of the country’s finances ahead of the Spring spending review.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has found that Ms Reeves is on course for a Budget deficit thanks to her decisions, something that would break a key promise by the Chancellor.

The Prime Minister has set off from No10 Downing Street to make the short journey to Parliament for Prime Minister’s Questions.

Kim Leadbeater, who is leading the assisted dying bill that is making its way through Parliament, will get a question at PMQs.

She has come under fire this week for scrapping the need for a high court judge to approve applications for someone to end their life.

Prime Minister could be keen to talk about the government’s plans to build 1.5 million new homes this Parliament during PMQs.

The Express’s political team will be bringing you the latest from the Commons at the heart of Westminster.

Prime Minister’s Questions begins at midday.