LABOUR should be reported as part of the BBC’s “anti-scam awareness week”, Stephen Flynn has said.
Keir Starmer was accused by the SNP’s Westminster leader of making various policy U-turns since coming to power.
During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Starmer hit back at Flynn with a jibe about the SNP MP’s ambitions to hold both a Westminster and Holyrood seat.
Flynn said: “As everyone in the House will be aware, we’re currently in the middle of BBC anti-scam awareness week and, of course, the advice in that context is always simple: if you see a scam, you should report it.
“With that in mind, can the Prime Minister advise the House: is he aware of anyone who’s promised to reduce energy bills, only for them to increase? Is he aware of anyone who promised to back business, only to tax business? And is he aware of anyone who promised to protect pensioners only to pick their pockets for their Winter Fuel Allowance?”
Starmer said that he was “glad” to see Flynn “in his seat in this house”, adding: “As I’m sure many of his colleagues in Scotland share that sentiment.”
His comments referenced Flynn being forced to withdraw his bid to “double job” as both an MP and MSP ahead of the next Holyrood elections.
Flynn had wanted to contest the selection for the Aberdeen South seat in Holyrood, against the incumbent Audrey Nicoll.
He was last week forced to admit he had “got this one wrong”, and suggested he would look to sit only in the Scottish Parliament.
Elsewhere, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch (above) suggested Starmer should resign, citing a viral petition which has more than two million signatures calling for another election.
After accusations from Starmer that the Tories “haven’t got a clue” in putting forward alternatives to Labour’s plans, Badenoch said: “To know what Conservatives would do, he should resign and find out. Until then, I’m the one asking the questions.
"There’s a petition out there, two million people asking him to go.”
Starmer replied: “She talks about a petition, we had a massive petition on July 4 in this country. We spent years taking our party from a party of protest to a party of government, they are hurtling in the opposite direction.”
