Sir Keir Starmer is “too arrogant to admit he got things wrong”, Kemi Badenoch has claimed, as she pressed the Prime Minister on borrowing costs, unemployment and future tax rises.

In the first Prime Minister’s Questions since MPs returned from the summer recess, the Conservative leader also took aim at Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves.

It came shortly after deputy prime minister Rayner admitted she underpaid stamp duty on her second home and referred herself to the independent ethics adviser.

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Angela Rayner admits she did not pay enough stamp duty on second home

The deputy prime minister said she has referred herself to the independent adviser on ministerial standards.

Badenoch said Sir Keir should sack her, but the Prime Minister said he was “very proud to sit alongside” his

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