Deputy PM Oliver Dowden has clashed with his Opposition counterpart Angela Rayner at Prime Minister’s Questions.
The deputy party leaders went head-to-head on Wednesday in place of Rishi Sunak, who is in the US for meeting with business leaders and senior figures in Congress, and Sir Keir Starmer.
Ms Rayner started off by taking aim at the Covid-19 Inquiry, saying the Tories had “set up the inquiry to get to the truth” then “blocked it” from getting information they had asked for.
She said: “Speaking of the last election, the Tory manifesto promised to end the abuse of the judicial review, how’s it going?”
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden replied: “Let me just remind (her) of a few facts about the Covid inquiry.
“We set up the Covid inquiry, we have provided it with more than 55,000 documents so far.
“We have given it all the financial resources it needs so that we can learn the lessons from the pandemic, but Mr Speaker in Wales they also had a pandemic, and what have the Labour-run Wales authorities done there? No independent inquiry in Wales.
“As ever one rule for Labour and another for everyone else.”
The clash comes as new polling shows Labour could be on track to win 470 seats at the next general election, compared with 129 for the Conservatives.
However, the first survey of voters done under new constituency boundaries, due to be introduced later this year, suggests Labour’s popularity is diminishing.
