The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, said the Conservative party had become 'the political wing of the Flat Earth Society' at PMQs on Wednesday, accusing the Tories of spreading conspiracies, following comments by Lee Anderson that the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, was under the control of Islamists and remarks made by the former prime minister Liz Truss about a shadowy cabal that included activists, the deep state and the Financial Times. The prime minister hit back at Starmer, retorting that the Labour leader did not act when his party had an antisemitism problem under Jeremy Corbyn. Rishi Sunak said Starmer was too 'spineless, hopeless, utterly shameless' to address the issue, in a heated session in parliament
