Politics latest: Keir Starmer presses Rishi Sunak on Tory donor row at PMQs; senior Tory says party 'exhausted by psychodrama'

Sir Keir Starmer is next to ask his series of questions of the prime minister, and he starts by welcoming the new legislation being introduced to quash wrongful convictions in the Post Office scandal.He then pays tribute to the 'formidable' former Labour MP Tommy McAvoy who has passed away.The Labour leader then says former PM Theresa May - who is 'taking her well-deserved retirement' - has 'served this House and her constituents with a real sense of duty'.

The Labour leader stays on the same topic, citing Mr Hester's reported comment that Ms Abbott 'should be shot', and asks: 'How low would he have to sink, what racist, woman-hating threat of violence would he have to make before the prime minister plucked up the courage to hand back the £10m that he's taken from him?'The PM repeats that Mr Hester has apologised 'genuinely', but then points to 'the double standards of his deputy leader calling her...

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