Starmer holds ‘constructive’ meeting with Labour MPs over party’s position on Israel and Gaza– as it happened

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Keir Starmer is in high spirits as he welcomes the new MPs who each won their byelections last week.

Sunak also welcomes the new MPs and to big laughs and jeers, he makes a jab at Nadine Dorries:

I join him and welcoming the new members to, after all, I suspect the new members from the base may actually support me a bit more than the last one.

Although, I did notice that the new member said that they will be opposing new housing in their local area while the new member for Tamworth said they would protect green spaces.

But with his track record of U-turns, who knows what his housing policy will be next week.