Kemi Badenoch has accused Sir Keir Starmer of talking “trash” in the Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions. The Tory leader clashed with the Prime Minister over breakfast clubs on Wednesday.

Mrs Badenoch said: “The Prime Minister is out of touch because he should know that nurseries are charging over £2,000 for full-time care. That’s £24,000 a year after tax and he’s talking about 60p breakfast clubs.

“He has no idea what people out there are experiencing. And it is not just the families, even councils must pay his jobs tax. To cope with it the average council tax bill is increasing by over £100 in April after he promised to freeze it. Hard working families’ money is going to the Chancellor instead of social care and fixing potholes. Why should these families pay more for less?”

Sir Keir Starmer replied: “Well she really shouldn’t denigrate what I think she calls ‘60p breakfast clubs’. She should be welcoming them. And she asked about council tax, the Tories put up council tax every year for 12 years.

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“Their manifesto, Tory LGA manifesto, governments should remove the caps on council tax… We’re the ones that are doing the right things to get the country on the right tax.”

Mrs Badenoch hit back: “The point is he promised to freeze and they are going up. And if he wants to talk about councils let’s look at Liverpool or maybe Birmingham where the rubbish is piling up so high people vote Labour and all they get is trash, just like what he’s saying at the Despatch Box.”

Rubbish bins are being left uncollected on the streets of Birmingham after hundreds of refuse collectors walked out indefinitely.

Nearly 400 council bin workers in the UK’s second-largest city stopped working after voting to extend their strike mandate.

They have walked out over Birmingham City Council’s use of temporary labour to “undermine” their industrial action, the Unite union said.