Prime minister accused at liaison committee hearing of not turning up to PMQs and avoiding sensitive votes
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Rishi Sunak has angrily denied being an absentee prime minister who routinely misses Commons scrutiny and sensitive votes as he endured sometimes turbulent questioning from senior MPs.
Quizzed by Chris Bryant as part of a grilling by the liaison committee, Sunak defended his plan to miss the next two prime minister’s questions, a timetable that Labour said would give him the lowest attendance record at weekly PMQs for any prime minister since 1979.
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