As it happened: Prime Minister's Questions 23 September - BBC News
Boris Johnson was questioned on coronavirus testing and the government's furlough scheme
The Prime Minister defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the prime minister of “losing control of testing” and “losing control of the virus”.

He said the prime minister was “really out of touch” with what parents were experiencing when trying to get coronavirus tests for their children.

The prime minister said it was an “epidemical fact” that the virus spreads person to person and that testing capacity was at “at a record high”.

He said Sir Keir should stop knocking the testing regime “from the side lines” as it was important to “encourage people to believe in it.”

Both the Labour leader and the SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on the government to extend the furlough scheme beyond October.

Ian Blackford said workers were “facing the dogs” if the scheme wasn’t extended.

And Labour backbencher Grahame Morris said there would be a “tsunami of job losses” if a targeted expansion wasn’t brought it.

Mr Johnson said the government would “bring forward creative and imaginative schemes to keep the economy going” and “keep them in work”.

He said the “essence” of what the government was doing was to “depress the virus, keep pupils in school, keep economy going”