Starmer says business leaders say the government has no plan. And the government won’t push through planning reform because Sunak is too weak to take over his party. Sunak says that when he was a leader, he said what the country needed to hear. But when Starmer was leader, he told his party what it wanted to hear. Updated at 12.13 GMT 12.11 GMT Starmer says taxing non-domestics would pay for the training of 15,000 more doctors. He says this means we shouldn’t live in a society where people have to go to private doctors. Sunak says Starmer has no plan for the economy. Updated at 12.13 GMT 12.10 GMT Starmer says if the Tories had grown the economy like Labor, the government would have tens of billions more in tax revenue. It says the away tax would raise £3.6bn. How many more nurses would this pay for? Sunak says the government is already training more nurses. It quotes the chief executive of NHS England as saying that. Updated at 12.13 GMT 12.08 GMT Starmer says a typical household faces a tax increase of £1,400. Contrast that with a super-wealthy non-host, who lives here but earns his income overseas. How much more has he asked them to pay? Sunak says Labor had 13 years to deal with it and did nothing. It was the Conservative government that tightened the rule. But Labour’s policy will end up costing Britain money, he says. And these are not his words, but the words of a former shadow chancellor (Ed Balls). Updated at 12.09 GMT 12.06 GMT Starmer asks why the UK will be the first country into recession and the last out? Sunak says the OECD report cited by Starmer supports the UK’s fiscal plan. He says Starmer would have known if he had read the whole thing. But he doesn’t care about the bottom line. he is an opportunist. In four weeks it boosted the economy, he says. But what did Starmer do? Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, says Sunak appears to be breaking a promise he made to Hoyle to give short answers. Updated at 12.08 GMT 12.04 GMT Keir Starmer opens by saying it’s unacceptable that gay football fans can’t express their affection for the people they love at the World Cup. It says the UK faces the lowest growth of any OECD country over the next two years. Why; Sunak says the UK currently tops the G7 for growth. If Labor is serious about growth, it should tell its union friends to call the strikes. Updated at 12.04 GMT 12.02 GMT Jonathan Gullis (Con) says people are not getting mental health help fast enough. Will the prime minister keep his promise, as chancellor, to put mental health nurses in operating rooms. Sunak says all 1,250 primary care networks in England can employ two mental health nurses. Updated at 12.07 GMT 11.55 GMT Q: So would Green and Alba votes count as independence votes as well as SNP votes? Sturgeon says she can only decide what the SNP proposes. Updated at 11:55 GMT 11.54 GMT Sturgeon now answers questions. Q: What election result would be a mandate for independence? And, if you lose, is the independence campaign over? Sturgeon says she’s just one person. It would not be for her to say that the independence campaign would be over. He says he wants the party as a whole to be involved in the campaign debate. Scotland cannot become independent unless the majority vote for it, he says. Updated at 11:54 GMT 11.50 GMT
Sturgeon says SNP will hold special conference in New Year to decide how next election can be de facto independence vote
Sturgeon says the decision undermines the UK’s claim to be a voluntary partnership of nations. He says the decision closed only one path to Scotland choosing independence. He says the UK government could still decide to allow a referendum. However, he says he won’t be “hands down” and expects them to continue to refuse a referendum. He says he will not give up his quest for an independence vote. The next vote is the general election and there is an obvious opportunity to treat it as a de facto referendum on independence. He says no party can tell people on what basis they should vote. But he says turning the next election into a de facto referendum is no longer hypothetical. He says the SNP will have to decide the exact proposal to put to voters. And he will have to decide what happens next if he wins a majority in a general election. He says he will ask the SNP to hold a special party conference in the new year to discuss what the party’s position on this should be. Updated at 11:52 GMT 11.41 GMT Sturgeon says the decision means the Scottish Government cannot carry out the referendum the people of Scotland have asked it to carry out. He says this is not the result he wanted. But it gives clarity. She continues: Having this clarity sooner rather than later allows us now to chart a path forward, however imperfect it may be. Sturgeon says she expects to see some triumphalism from unionists. But that would be misguided, he says. (In fact, judging by their responses – see 10.47am or 11.07am, for example – some unionists are doing their best to avoid appearing triumphant.) Updated at 11:41 GMT 11.38 GMT
Sturgeon hits back at high court ruling, says referendum mandate ‘unquestionable’
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, responds to the high court ruling. He says the Scottish Government respects the law. But the high court does not make the law and the law is inconsistent with democracy, he says. He says the court has not decided whether there is a democratic mandate for a referendum. He says the fact that there is a mandate is “indisputable.” And the court did not consider whether Scotland should be independent or how else independence could be achieved, he says. Updated at 11:38 GMT
