Mark Pritchard in the Commons.

A senior Tory MP has taken an astonishing swipe at Kemi Badenoch after she accused Keir Starmer of dodging prime minister’s questions.

The opposition leader said Starmer had “evaded” PMQs for the last two weeks, when he has been attending the G7 and Nato summits abroad.

In response, a clearly-angry PM accused Badenoch of being “unserious” at a time of huge global instability.

He said: “There’s never been a more important time to work with our allies and to be absolutely serious in our response. That response was unserious. Unserious.

“To suggest at a time like this that the prime minister attending the G7 summit and the Nato summit is avoiding........

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