PMQs live: David Lammy faces James Cleverly after Labour calls on Farage to ‘come clean’ over £5m gift

According to The Guardian, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy stood in at Prime Minister's Questions against shadow housing secretary James Cleverly, with Keir Starmer away at a NATO summit. The session came as Labour pressed Reform UK's Nigel Farage to, in their words, come clean over a five million pound gift, which the paper reports was flagged to a UK crime agency over money-laundering concerns. The Guardian also notes an unusual wrinkle in the upcoming Clacton byelection: with other parties declining to stand, the serial joke candidate Count Binface earned a rare Radio 4 Today programme interview and may end up as Farage's main opposition on the ballot.

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