Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was told off by the Speaker of the House of Commons during a tense session of Prime Minister's Questions.
Mr Sunak was going up against Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at the dispatch box, with his party firmly behind in the polls. The two party leaders clashed over the state of the economy, home ownership and other challenges facing the future of the country.
It was a testy session and at one point the Speaker of the House Lindsay Hoyle had to step in to tell the Prime Minister off. Mr Hoyle suggested that the Prime Minister had spoken to him about keeping his answers to questions short and accused him of breaking his word during today's session. He also rebuked Mr Sunak for not sitting down as the Speaker stood up, as is the rule in the House of Commons.
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Mr Hoyle said: "Prime Minister when I stand you have got to sit down, but can I just say, you came to me quite rightly and said 'we've got to get through Prime Minister's Questions, I'm going to give short answers', please stick to what you said."
The intervention by the Speaker was met with gasps and cheers by a number of MPs in the House. It was one aspect of a bad-tempered and often scrappy exchange in the Commons.
Labour leader Sir Keir was keen to press the issue of Britain's faltering economy and point out that the country is doing worse than other similar countries.
Accusing Sunak of being "in denial" over the state of the nation's finances, he asked why the UK has the lowest growth of any OECD nation (a group of rich countries) - and questioned why Britain is set to be the first country into recession and the last out.
Responding, the Prime Minister claimed he had strengthened the economy in his four weeks in office and handed more cash to the NHS and schools. He also accused Labour of having no plan for the economy.
The Labour leader accused the new Prime Minister of being "too weak" to take on his own party and vested interests, asking why the Tories "always clobber working people?"
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