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Penny Mordaunt took a swipe at Angela Rayner over the housing row as she tore into Labour in the Commons.

The Commons Leader said the Labour deputy leader “holds others to standards she does not think should apply to herself”.

Ms Mordaunt made the comment as she claimed “deepfake Labour” are being led by “catfish Keir”.

The Cabinet minister, speaking during business questions after updating MPs about the future debates in the Commons, said the Government has pledged to take action to improve online safety – including making it an offence to create a sexually explicit deepfake image.

She said: “The deepfake phenomenon is more widespread than you might think.

“The public may well be fooled into thinking that something is the case when it is not or that the person they know is manifestly different and we need to expose such scams.

“They might be tempted … to believe that the person is committed to this nation’s …