Starmer praises diversity of MPs in first Commons speech as PM

Sir Keir Starmer has stood up to speak as prime minister in the Commons for the first time. He began by congratulating Sir Lindsay Hoyle on his re-election.
He said the Speaker presided over the most diverse parliament by race and gender the country had ever seen.
“And I’m proud of the part that my party has played, proud of the part that every party has played in that,” he continued. “Including, in this intake, the largest cohort of LGBT+ MPs of any parliament in the world.
Sir Keir Starmer also congratulated the new Father of the House Sir Edward Leigh and Diane Abbott who is now Mother of the House.
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