Sir Keir Starmer has tested positive for Covid

Sir Keir Starmer has tested positive for Covid-19 and will not be doing Prime Minister’s Questions or responding to the Budget, Labour has said.

Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband stood in for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions, as the Labour leader was isolating.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab were among those Conservative MPs wearing masks in the Commons chamber, although Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg was not.

Mask-wearing on the Tory benches was mixed during Prime Minister’s Questions.

On Tuesday, the House of Commons ordered everyone except MPs will have to wear face coverings while on the parliamentary estate due to rising Covid-19 cases.

It comes just before Chancellor Rishi Sunak is due to announce the Budget 2021.