Sir Keir Starmer takes a swipe at Tory policies, suggesting Johnson is 'only just waking up to the cost of living crisis'. The PM replies he is reversing the 'tragic historic mistake of the Labour party in refusing to invest in nuclear' PMQs 📺 Sky 501
Green MP Caroline Lucas points out that 56 members of parliament are under investigation for sexual harassment, including three cabinet ministers.In response, Boris Johnson says sexual harassment is"intolerable" and there should be a procedure to bring it to attention. SNP leader addresses 'cost of living emergency'
Mr Johnson says the government is"helping families up and down the country" with things like the universal credit taper.This PMQs is not about getting answers from the government. It's all about the election. It comes in response to reports in The Sun and Daily Mirror that the male MP - reported to be a Tory frontbencher - was watching pornography on his mobile phone while sitting alongside a female minister.One MP in attendance told Sky News the chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris looked"horrified" and asked for the man's identity.
"This week, millions will look at their payslip and see a tax rise with his fingerprints all over it," he says.Boris Johnson replies that his government has lifted the living wage to a record amount, cut National Insurance contributions and is investing in the NHS. Mr Starmer points out the North Sea oil producers are"making so much unexpected profit they call themselves a 'cash machine'.
Mr Johnson says his party is still trying to fix"past mistakes" of the previous Labour government and adds that if he listened to Mr Starmer, the UK would never have come out of lockdown. The prime minister says the UK has come out of COVID"faster than anyone else", pulling out his familiar insult describing his opponent"Captain Hindsight".
Sir Keir accused him of going"back to blaming everyone else" for his woes - including the Archbishop of Canterbury - after his partygate apology. The PM hit back at Sir Keir, accusing the Labour leader of being in a"Doctor Who time warp" and branding him a"Corbynista in an Islington suit".
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