The SNP has made a fresh call on Boris Johnson to resign after the latest revelations in the partygate scandal allege the Prime Minister held a lockdown-breaking birthday bash in 2020.
05.01.2022 - 19:43 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Boris Johnson has been confronted with the Tory cost of living crisis and told to “brush up his act’ against spiralling inflation and energy costs.
Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, warned thousands of families face a “disaster” due to tax rises and rising energy cost s this year.
As the Commons returned from from the Christmas break she urged Johnson to be more “aspirational for this country”, as working families are “picking up the tab for his incompetence”.
Standing in for Keir Starmer, who is isolating with covid, at Prime Minister’s Questions, Rayner tore into the planned Tory tax rises in April and increases in inflation that could leave families £1200 worse off.
The Labour deputy leader called for a cut in VAT on fuel bills and told the Commons: “Combine the tax rise with soaring energy prices and the average family faces a hit of £1,200 – this is an iceberg right ahead, so will he finally stop and change course … or will he plough on to what will be a disaster for thousands of families?”
Johnson insisted the government has taken steps to help people, including with Universal Credit and the minimum wage, and also “keep this country open, keep our economy moving”.
He said: “We will continue to look after people throughout the pandemic.”
The SNP’s Ian Blackford joined in the pincer movement with a warning that 2022 will be the “year of the squeeze” for family budgets.
The party’s Westminster leader called on Johnson to take urgent action, with an emergency financial package to support families, including a UK-wide child payment of £20 per child per week, which the SNP government is introducing in Scotland.
Blackford declared: “We’ve had the ‘year of Tory sleaze’, now we’ve got the ‘year of the squeeze’ for family
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Boris Johnson – check it out below.For their latest release, the satirical duo repurposed Rage Against The Machine‘s 1991 protest anthem ‘Killing In The Name’ in response to recent allegations that Downing Street hosted various parties during lockdown.The clip begins with the PM asking the British public to “limit contact with other people” during a coronavirus press conference. “Now you do what I tell you,” Johnson adds over an instrumental of the classic Rage single.“As you comply, I socialise/ With cheese and wine, and forty guys/ From ‘Next slide please’ to wine and cheese/ The rules you see, don’t apply to me,” Johnson says in the style of the original track.
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