Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage is up next.

He says that, following the "horrendous circumstances" of Henry Nowak's death, he urges Starmer to consider that Britons are "living under two-tier policing".

Farage says that the "instructions that are given" to police officers "are clear and written down in ink", that "you must treat different ethnic groups in different ways".

The Reform leader says the anger seen "spilling out" in Southampton last night is "in danger of getting considerably worse" if the public lose trust in the police.

As he asks Starmer to "take action" against the "divisive" two-tier policing, MPs can be heard heckling him, saying: "You need to condemn the violence".

Starmer says he doesn't believe there is two tier policing in the UK, and that he is "really shocked that [Farage] pretends to have respect for Henry's family and then acts in this way".

He says that they are a "grieving family" who "have asked us not to respond in the way the leader of Reform has responded".

"They make a simple plea of us as human beings to please not exploit that," Starmer says.

Davy next references Labour's use of long-form essays as part of their communications and quips that it gives another meaning to the phrase "drone warfare".

He mentions one published by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair - which was critical of Starmer - and asks if the prime minister is concerned that "unless he changes course" he will be remembered for being "neither radical, nor sensible".

Starmer quips back that Davy has spoiled "what was quite a good gag".

He jokes that he was "surprised" that the Liberal Democrat leader hadn't more heartily welcomed the recent government announcement that it would subsidise summer holiday day outs for families - a reference to Davy's election campaign stunts that saw him take to paddle boards, water slides and more.

The floor is now opened up for questions from other MPs.

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey says the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak was an "evil crime made much worse by the lies of the killer, and the police response".

He says the investigation - being carried out by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) - must uncover what went wrong and all police forces must act on its conclusions.

Davey says Nowak's father made a "powerful plea" outside court that his son's murder should not be used to create further division, but should be used to treat knife crime as a national emergency.

He asks if Starmer agrees that the victims of knife crime, and their families, deserve a politics where we come together to solve these problems and not use them as a "political football".

The PM replies, saying it is important to reflect on our own leadership role and it is our duty to bring people together and not divide them.

Badenoch says unemployment has risen every month since Labour came to office, adding Starmer doesn't have the votes on his side to reform the welfare system, and the Conservatives have a solution.

She quips that while the government side is "cheering now", the PM is "more than happy to release their text messages" while his own messaging has disappeared.

"Everyone in this House knows he is just a caretaker keeping the seat warm for the mayor of Manchester," she says.

Starmer replies that the Tories "broke" various institutions like prisons, the NHS and the broader economy while in government, adding the Tories are "irrelevant" and that his government is fighting for working people.

Badenoch says the PM "caved" to his MPs last year when he had a chance to cut the welfare bill and decided to U-turn. She asks whether Starmer agrees with his welfare secretary that that was "the moment he lost his authority".

To which the prime minister says he is "proud" of what his side of the House is delivering, including making the UK "the fastest growing economy in the G7".

He says the government has achieved a historic reduction of of waiting times in the NHS, on top of providing free school meals and child care for parents. He says his government is "lifting half a million children out of poverty".

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Kemi Badenoch says the welfare bill went up under the Conservatives "because of the pandemic", and accuses Labour of asking them to "spend more" during that period.

It's not the shadow chancellor who's the problem, "it's the actual chancellor", she says. She mentions that the secretary of state for work and pensions in an interview on the weekend declined to answer if he's planning to cut the benefits bill and asks if the PM will do this.

Starmer says "all the measures" his government are taking are to reduce the costs of welfare and the number of unemployed.

The Tories introduced a "broken" system, he says, but Labour is "reforming it".

Kemi Badenoch then says PM doesn't know the answer to her question on the increase in the cost of welfare, so she'll answer if for him.

She says "benefits alone have risen by £20bn since Starmer came to office", adding that he had promised welfare reforms.

Why then, she asks, was there no such bill in the King's speech?

Starmer says that welfare reforms are all about balancing universal credit, so it no longer pushes away from work.

He adds the government is introducing a "right to try", incentivising people to take up opportunities, and providing record funding on apprenticeships.

He says that is what Labour is doing, but Tories voted against it.

He adds the welfare bill soared by £88bn on the Tories' watch and nearly three million people were written off.

Starmer says the person who signed off those changes was the shadow chancellor Mel Stride.

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Starmer begins his answer by thanking Badenoch for her approach and tone in relation to Henry Nowak's death.

In relation to welfare, he says the government "inherited a broken system" from the Tories, adding the government is now improving the system by delivering on youth unemployment.

He adds that the costs of welfare went up "hugely" under the watch of the Conservatives.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch is now asking Keir Starmer her first question.

She shares her "deepest condolences" to the friends and family of Henry Nowak, and says his death "must be a wake up call to the entire country and our institutions that every life matters".

Badenoch then moves on to the country's welfare bill, asking how much has it risen since the prime minister came into office?

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Henry Nowak's family "have shown extraordinary dignity", Starmer first says, and pays tribute to him as a "kind, thoughtful, much-loved young man".

There are "serious questions to answer" and the government is supporting the police watchdog to "get to the bottom" of what happened, he says - including "how accusations of racism informed police thinking".

But there is "no justification for more violence and disorder" and attacks on police overnight in Southampton are "disgraceful", he says.

Anyone found engaging in disorder will "meet the full force of the law", he says, and calls this a time "for serious work, not rage".

For context: Southampton saw violence and disorder overnight, after protesters clashed with police near where 18‑year‑old Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed. Two people were arrested and 11 officers injured.

It's just gone 12:00 BST and Keir Starmer is on his feet for Prime Minister's Questions.

We'll bring you all the key lines here and a reminder that you can watch live at the top of the page.

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A former chief superintendent for the Metropolitan Police has warned against politicians "taking advantage" of Henry Nowak's murder.

Dal Babu tells the BBC's Politics Live that the investigation into Nowak's murder should not take "advantage of the situation" for politicians, and yet "certain individuals" have done so.

He says that they have "suddenly come to the idea" that race training has had a "disproportional impact" on how Nowak was treated, without "looking at the facts".

He says Nowak's handcuffing and arrest when he had been stabbed comes down to a "fundamental operational failure", adding that the public "need to have more information coming in before we can come to any decisions".

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The drop of the second tranche of files relating to Lord Peter Mandelson's appointment as UK ambassador to the US has dominated headlines in Westminster this week - but it's not the only story.

• The UK will not have to pay Rwanda millions of pounds over the collapsed asylum agreement cancelled by Starmer after he came into office, an international court ruled
• Wes Streeting has suggested cutting employers' National Insurance (NI) could be a way to incentivise businesses to hire more young people, and that some new North Sea drilling for oil and gas should be allowed to raise more tax
• Nicola Sturgeon said she feels like she is "serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit" after her estranged husband admitted embezzling the SNP as chief executive - Peter Murrell used charge cards, bank transfers and fake invoices to embezzle more than £400,000 from the party
• An inquiry by MPs into the student loan system in England has begun, as new research published separately suggests a third of people now think a university degree isn't worth the time and money

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Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds spoke to the BBC yesterday about the file release.

He was asked about Pat McFadden's comments that, when speaking with other Labour politicians, "Every meeting I have is 'who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others'."

For context, McFadden was a Cabinet Office minister at the time, but has since been appointed as work and pensions secretary.

Thomas-Symonds told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Look they are embarrassing, I'm not hiding from that."

But he said the reason the messages are in the public domain is to comply with the Humble Address, which required government transparency.

Asked by BBC Breakfast about comments made by Mandelson in the files that no-one in government knows what Sir Keir wants, Thomas-Symonds said "I don't agree with that view about the prime minister".

He added: "The government is delivering, which was exactly the purpose of the changes the prime minister made last September."

Joe Pike
Political correspondent

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The latest release of files relating to Peter Mandelson's appointment as UK ambassador to the US has seen a Whatsapp message from cabinet minister Pat McFadden jumped on by opposition parties.

The man who is now work and pensions secretary described conversations he had with other Labour politicians about the welfare system and public spending in a pretty blunt way.

"Every meeting I have is 'who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others'," McFadden wrote to Lord Mandelson in May 2025. "They're asking the wrong questions."

Allies of McFadden point out that message was sent before he was in charge of the UK's benefits regime. He was running the cabinet office at the time.

A spokesperson for the work and pensions secretary says: “His only contact with Peter Mandelson since he left government has been to urge him to think about the victims in all this and apologise to them.”

On Monday, Conservative leader Kemi Badeoch responded that "Pat McFadden has said in private what he and the prime minister deny in public".

She argued that Labour is now "the Welfare Party", and added: "They think our taxes are their money to spend, rather than the result of the hard work of the people in our country who deserve so much better."

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been pictured leaving No 10, as he makes the short journey from Downing Street to the House of Commons for Prime Minister's Questions at 12:00 BST.

We'll be covering the back and forth of PMQs right here. You can also watch live at the top of this page.

Reform UK's Robert Jenrick has called for a change in the way policing in the UK is conducted "for good".

Speaking to Times Radio, Jenrick said the case "must be a turning point".

He said Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is too "squeamish" about upsetting ethnic minorities to address the issue.

"I just want police officers to treat everyone in this country equally," he saidd, and denied that he was "pitting white Britons against ethnic minority Britons".

On Tuesday, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage suggested people should respond to Henry Nowak's case with "pure cold rage" and said "a false accusation of racism counted higher at that moment than somebody that was dying" after the 18-year-old was handcuffed by police.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for the Labour Party to respond to Henry Nowak's death as seriously as they responded to the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed by police in the US in 2020.

A police officer was filmed kneeling on Floyd's neck during his arrest.

Badenoch told BBC Newsnight on Tuesday that when Keir Starmer was leader of the opposition he took the knee, a symbolic gesture against racism, following Floyd's death.

"They were taking the knee for something that happened in another country", she said.

"I want them to take as seriously what is happening in this country, what they did with George Floyd."

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Yesterday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood addressed MPs about the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.

She described the murder as a "horrifying" and "evil" act, saying what Nowak’s family has gone through was "unimaginable".

She later condemned the "violence and disorder" in Portswood, Southhampton last night - saying it was "completely unacceptable".

Several hundreds of people gathered outside Southampton Central Police Station before moving close to the family home of Vickrum Digwa in St Denys.

"The Nowak family made a powerful call to us all yesterday to not let Henry’s death be used to create further division, hatred or tension," Mahmood said in a post on X last night.

"There can be no justification for hijacking this tragedy to stir up violence and disorder. Those responsible can expect to face the full force of the law.

"I thank the police who have tonight shown great bravery and calm in the face of disgraceful violence directed at them."

The release of police bodycam footage showing the moments 18-year-old Henry Nowak was handcuffed as he struggled to breathe after being stabbed has sparked outrage among politicians and the public.

Several hundred protesters gathered outside Southampton Central police station on Tuesday evening, however there were later clashes between demonstrators and riot police, which saw officers pelted with missiles.

Here's a quick reminder of how events have unfolded:

• On Monday, Vickrum Digwa wassentenced to life with a minimum of 21 years for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak
• Bodycam footage from officers who attended the scene was released by Hampshire Police - it showed the moments Nowak was handcuffed as he was telling officers that he had been stabbed and couldn't breathe
• In the footage, one officer can be heard telling Nowak he didn't think he had been stabbed
• Outside court on Monday, Nowak's family called for an investigation into the incidentas they underlined they do not want his death to lead to further division
• The attorney general is considering whether to refer Digwa's sentence to the Court of Appealafter receiving multiple requests to do so
• Prime Minister Keir Starmer described it as a "shocking" case- adding it was right that the Independent Office for Police Conduct looks into the police response
• As other political leaders issued their own reactions, a source told the BBC thatthe National Police Chiefs' Council would be reviewing wording in anti-racism guidelines
• Last night, hundreds gathered in Southampton over the incident but the scenes descended into violence as chairs, cans and flares were thrown at officers in riot gear