Exactly how Kemi Badenoch could skewer Keir Starmer at PMQs

ANALYSIS

There’s no shortage of topics for Kemi Badenoch to take aim at Keir Starmer with.

The Tory leader has already accused Labour of “taking us for fools” in an scathing attack over the Prime Minister’s immigration proposals.

That blitz over his plans could continue across the Despatch Box in the Commons today when the pair clash for the first time since the Government released its Immigration White Paper.

Mrs Badenoch could choose to look ahead to Monday when Sir Keir hosts a UK-EU summit as part of his plans to strengthen ties with the EU.

She’s already pledged to tear up any backroom deal that doesn't work in the UK’s national interest should she one day become the key holder to No10 Downing Street.

Her MPs used a Tory Opposition Day debate to tear into the Government’s cosying up to the EU in a bid to join a £112 billion defence pact.

Sir Bernard Jenkin said a defence deal with the European Union is not the answer to the UK’s problems.

It comes as negotiations with the UK over future fishing quotas could potentially be used as a bargaining chip and hold up the security deal, the European Union's foreign policy chief has suggested.

Kaja Kallas told BBC Newsnight "a few elements" of a deal were still to be agreed but "I think we are over the fish".

Fishing could be another hot topic in the Commons later ahead of next week’s summit, with Mrs Badneoch previously accusing the Labour leader of “selling out” British fishing rights to the EU in exchange for a new trade deal.

There’s also Rachel Reeves’s flailing economy to use to strike against Sir Keir’s leadership.

It’s the first Prime Minister’s Questions since the announcement of a US-UK trade deal - one which Mrs Badenoch claimed “shafted Britain”.

Just yesterday, Donald Trump's agriculture secretary criticised Labour's family farms tax as a threat to national security.

With no topics off the table, tune in for the weekly bout between the pair which kicks off from noon.