PMQs LIVE – Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch for closing 2025 conflict
Keir Starmer will go head-to-head with Kemi Badenoch for the final time of 2025 today.
The Tory leader will have a last chance to quiz the Prime Minister before MPs break up for the two-week Commons recess on Thursday. Ms Badenoch may raise the five-day strike by NHS resident doctors amid a war of words between Health Secretary Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association (BMA).
The PM is likely to raise Labour’s flagship Employment Rights Bill that finally passed the Lords on Tuesday evening – paving the way for a massive boost to workers’ rights to become law before Christmas.
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Major Brexit change to be reversed by Keir Starmer
The UK will rejoin the EU’s student exchange programme – called Erasmus – in a major boost to young people.
It will mean British students will be able to study abroad at universities in Europe for the first time since Brexit. More than 100,000 people in the UK could benefit from the scheme in 2027 alone, the first year the scheme will be up and running.
Where are doctors on strike today – search your hospital on interactive map
Thousands of resident doctors have begun five days of strike action today after the British Medical Association (BMA) rejected the Government’s latest offer.
Up to half of the medical workforce in England could stop work at 7am on Wednesday and not return for five days as part of a long-running dispute over pay and jobs. Non-urgent appointments are likely to be cancelled as hospitals grapple with a surge in flu cases alongside the industrial action.
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