Will Sunak stick around to take on Starmer at PMQs?
The Independent|July 10, 2024
One of the many humiliations suffered by the Conservatives in the past week has been the temporary deletion of their X/Twitter account.
SEAN O'GRADY
Will Sunak stick around to take on Starmer at PMQs?

For a short time, visitors to the party’s social media page were greeted only with the error message: “Something went wrong.” That’s an understatement, although the question remains exactly what went wrong.

Identifying a way forward could take months, if not years, but in the meantime what’s left of the parliamentary Conservative Party has to form an effective opposition. In the short term, this means Rishi Sunak taking on Keir Starmer’s former role in the most brutal of job swaps…

When will Starmer and Sunak face each other in their new roles?

After yesterday’s first-day-of-term niceties, the first substantive clash between the two leaders will follow the King’s Speech, on Wednesday 17 July. The pair will probably then face one another again at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) the following Wednesday. If the Conservatives choose a new leader during the summer recess, that may well be their last exchange.

What has happened in the past?

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