‘Tory mortgage bombshell’ contributing to child poverty in UK, says Rayner

At PMQs, Angela Rayner repeated John Prescott’s question from 1996 – 'Why is it that in Tory Britain tens of thousands of families are facing repossession, negative equity and homelessness?' – and asked why she should need to ask the same question 27 years later, as she challenged Oliver Dowden on child poverty and the ‘Tory mortgage bombshell'. Dowden and Rayner were standing in for the prime minister and the Labour leader as Rishi Sunak attended a Nato summit in Vilnius UK politics: latest updates