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Rishi Sunak took a swipe at Angela Rayner’s police probe as he clashed with Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs today.

The Labour leader took aim at the Prime Minister after the Tories suffered a local election drubbing and Natalie Elphicke became the second MP in as many weeks to defect to his party.

He said: “In addition to losing two Tory MPs in two weeks, the Prime Minister has been on the receiving end of some of the biggest by-election swings in history.

“He’s also lost 1,500 Tory councillors, half of his party’s mayors and a leadership election to a lettuce. How many more times do the public and his own MPs need to reject him before he takes the hint?”

But Mr Sunak replied: “This time last year I reminded him of some advice actually from his own mentor Tony Blair, who had said at the time, ‘he can be as cocky as he likes about …