Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clash after Tulip Siddiq's resignation and inflation fall - PM faces questions over Tulip Siddiq’s resignation as Treasury minister

Michael Saunders, a former member of the BoE's monetary policy committee which sets interest rates, said the latest inflation figure would be "some help" in trying to ease some of the worries over the UK economy - more on that in our next post.

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer faced Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, 15 January, after a surprise inflation fall gave a boost to under-fire chancellor Rachel Reeves. The prime minister was grilled in the House of Commons on the state of the economy after new figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation slowed to 2.

Kemi Badenoch will face Sir Keir Starmer for PMQs in the Commons at lunchtime. The Tory leader has plenty of topics to grill the Prime Minister on, including the resignation of Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq yesterday amid a corruption row.

Keir Starmer will face the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch less than 24 hours after Tulip Siddiq resigned as a Treasury minister. Follow all the latest updates from Prime Minister's Questions

During Prime Minister's Questions, British Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch criticized PM Keir Starmer for economic challenges, high borrowing costs, and alleged poor fiscal management. She accused Starmer of lacking leadership and integrity,