PMQs chaos as Reform storms out over ‘arrogant’ Starmer
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Reform’s walked out of Prime Minister’s Questions this lunchtime, infuriated at Sir Keir Starmer’s refusal to answer Nigel Farage’s question about small boat crossings.
Reform deputy leader Richard Tice tells Camilla and Tim that his party felt it was time to “make a point” about Starmer’s “rude” and “arrogant” behaviour.
Elsewhere, they also examine the timeline of Morgan McSweeney’s stolen phone, with the news it was in fact lost shortly after Peter Mandelson had been sacked. The plot thickens with reports today that McSweeney didn’t tell police who he was, or that the phone contained top-level government material, when he informed them of the theft.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.1 | Drama at PMQ's. |
| 0:11.7 | Nigel Farage speaks for England by walking out. |
| 0:14.6 | We speak to Deputy Leader Richard Tice, |
| 0:16.7 | who says his hat up to here with the Prime Minister refusing to answer questions. |
| 0:21.1 | And we try to solve the mystery of Morgan McSweeney's missing mobile phone. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to the Daily team with me, Camilla Tomini. |
| 0:28.1 | And me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:42.7 | Camilla, that was one of the most dramatic PMQs I've attended. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm dropping my pen in absolute horror at what you're saying. Wow. Why? |
| 0:51.8 | I woke up just as Nigel Farage stormed out. |
| 0:54.6 | You're so unfair to the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition. |
| 0:59.2 | You're saying that they bored you to tears with his patronising toad and her banging on about energy. |
| 1:00.9 | Well, it was classic everyone. |
| 1:03.6 | Stama was at his most stammerish, chemi at her most chemish, |
| 1:07.2 | but the most exciting moments when Nigel Farage asked this question. |
| 1:09.8 | Thank you, Mr. Speaker. |
| 1:13.3 | Smash the gangs. |
| 1:15.6 | That is what the Prime Minister promised us. |
| 1:18.5 | Trust me, I will stop the boats from coming. |
| 1:27.2 | But 70,000 later and 1,000 in the last week and too many young men that pose a threat to national security. |
| 1:28.3 | Is it not time to admit? |
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