Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs
1.44pm GMT
This is what was said when Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary and now chair of Labour’s refugee taskforce, raised a point of order about David Cameron’s “bunch of migrants” comments.
Cooper said:
The House will have heard many tributes made to Holocaust Memorial Day today and the Holocaust Educational Trust campaign doesn’t stand by. In that light and in that spirit, don’t you think that it was inappropriate for the prime minister to use language referring to the refugee crisis in Europe and talk about ‘a bunch of migrants’?
Do you think it’d be appropriate for the House to ask the prime minister to withdraw that language, to use much more statesmanship-like language about the need to build a cross-party consensus on such a complex and sensitive issue?
You speak with enormous experience in this House and I respect what you say. I completely identify and empathise with your observations about Holocaust Memorial Day, which you and I on other occasions have marked at events together – so I take what you say extremely seriously.
I do have to say to you and the House that the observation in question was not disorderly, it was not unparliamentary.
1.38pm GMT
Brandwatch, a company that does social media analytics, has sent me its figures from PMQs. It monitored more than 7,000 tweets posted about PMQs with the #PMQs hashtag, and it says these were the most popular.
From Labour’s Chuka Umunna
The PM refers to “a bunch of migrants” in Calais at the Dispatch box just now. Inflammatory and unbecoming of his office. Shameful #PMQs
“A bunch of migrants.” Describing innocent people fleeing persecution like that on today of all days. #PMQs
“Swarm”, “bunch” David Cameron betrays disturbing attitudes in his choice of language. You could try “children”, “people”, “refugees” #pmqs
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