No 10 says Badenoch’s claim PM should have intervened to stop China spy trial collapsing ‘absurd’ – UK politics live
Downing Street says had Starmer intervened he would have been interfering in a case related to a previous government
Ward says that “no minister or special adviser played any role in the provision of evidence” under this government. He says he cannot say if that was the case under the last government.
There is a lot of jeering at this. The Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, reprimands Tom Tugendhat for his interruption.