Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak to face off at PMQs

Tory MPs prepare to vote for the last time on Wednesday in the party's leadership ballot.

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak will go head-to-head in the first Prime Minister’s Questions since September.

Following the last clash at PMQs, both Labour and the Tories have held their party conferences.

Sir Keir outlined his plans for “national renewal” while infighting over the controversial cut to the winter fuel payment continued.

At the weekend, Sir Keir chief of staff Sue Gray quit because of fears she was “becoming a distraction” to the new Government.

There had been reports of tensions in Number 10 involving Ms Gray, including between her and Sir Keir’s chief adviser Morgan McSweeney, who will succeed her in the role.

On Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer discussed the change of personnel in Downing Street after Sue Gray’s ousting at Cabinet as he stressed the Government was focused on “delivering the change that he was elected to deliver,” Number 10 said.

At the Conservative conference, the leadership contenders laid out their stalls to the party membership.

Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch face a battle to make it in to the final stage of the Conservative leadership election, as MPs prepare to vote for the last time on Wednesday.

Former home secretary James Cleverly looks all but assured of being one of the final two candidates after coming top of Tuesday’s third round ballot with 39 votes.

But just one vote separates Jenrick and Badenoch, on 31 and 30 votes respectively.

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