Sir Keir Starmer received a treat ahead of Prime Minister’s Questions today. In a pink see-through folder, MPs had already shown their hand.

However, the two MPs whose questions have been seen ahead of time do not sit behind the Prime Minister. Rather than being Labour MPs preparing to lob low ball after low ball at Sir Keir, it was two Liberal Democrat MPs who tipped off No10.

South Cotswolds MP Roz Savage is preparing to ask Sir Keir about brownfield sites and Truro & Falmouth MP Jayne Kirkham is requesting more support on apprenticeships. While the questions appear innocuous enough, there are growing concerns that a Lib-Lab pact is strengthening every week.

The Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey both hurl insults at Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. The pair consistently label the Clacton MP as a shill for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

And Mr Farage has had enough of it. “Yet another session of PMQs where I get mentioned but can’t respond,” Mr Farage said last week. “There is not much point me even being there.”

Earlier this year, GB News revealed that Labour MPs had ramped up attacks on Mr Farage.

Liberal Democrat MPs and some Tory MPs have also been known to take broadside shots at the Reform UK leader.

However, Conservative MPs have now voiced concerns about Liberal Democrat MPs tipping off No10 about their weekly questions.

Rutland & Stamford MP Alicia Kearns said: “Extraordinary. Labour MPs to be submitting word-for-word what they’re going to ask the Prime Minister is one thing, but Liberal Democrat MPs doing it too?

“Opposition who? I have never submitted a written question in advance to a Prime Minister.”

Tory peer Lord Jackson added: “Liberal Democrats colluding with Labour at PMQs. Who’d have thought it? Shocked I am.”

Meanwhile, ex-Tory candidate Ed McGuinness, who missed out in Surrey Heath to the Liberal Democrats, also said: “Liberal Democrats already in coalition with Labour it seems.”

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However, former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron dismissed concerns about any alleged collusion.

“If you get a PMQ as an opposition MP you can try to score points if you like or you can try to ensure you get a decent answer by tipping off the PM in advance,” Mr Farron said.

“I’ve done both in my time. Literally nothing to see here.”

But the Institute for Government revealed that the Prime Minister rarely receives formal notice of the questions MPs intend to ask.

However, it has become conventional for almost all MPs to ask the Prime Minister “if he will list his official engagements” for the day.

The first MP on the order paper actually asks the Prime Minister this question, prompting a standard response at the despatch box.

“This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others,” Sir Keir will say later today.

“In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.”

Despite Mr Farage riding high in the opinion polls, the Reform UK leader is not expected to rise to his feet at Prime Minister’s Questions until mid-November.

The Clacton MP has asked just six questions at PMQs, compared to 200 for Kemi Badenoch.

Sir Ed has asked a staggering 70 questions, with Green MPs asking another nine.

However, if the questions were allocated to reflect current opinion polls, Mr Farage would have asked 120.