Conservative MP Graham Stuart took aim at Sir Keir Starmer's "pack of lies" in his manifesto, criticising his "calamitous journey" so far in office.

Stuart said: "Could I begin by warmly congratulating the Prime Minister on his first year in office? I acknowledge that the Labour manifesto was beautifully written, deeply moving, and like that other great blockbuster of hope and redemption, the salt path, a total pack of lies.

"With joblessness, inflation and debt ballooning, his personal ratings collapsing and his backbenchers on a work to rule, could the Prime Minister recommend a summer recess read in order to take all our minds away from a calamitous journey on which he and the Chancellor have embarked?"