Oh great. It’s #PMQs. Labour MP begins by asking PM to confirm he won’t cut the aid budget, as has been reported. Johnson responds by mentioning how ‘world-leading’ we are on solving the world’s problems, and refuses to rule out any such cut at all.
Starmer and Johnson trade barbs on devolution. ‘Greatest threat to the Union is the PM himself,’ says Starmer. ‘Taking back control has meant taking it from the Scottish people.’ Never a truer word spoken. #PMQs
Johnson bizarrely claims that Tony Blair never foresaw the ‘separatist’ threat. Would someone like to tell him that the SNP was in fact winning seats for decades before Blair became PM? #PMQs
Starmer hits another nail on the head. ‘If people can’t self-isolate there’s little point being tested or traced.’
Now comes the predicted question on the tens of millions of taxpayers’ money spent on middlemen. Johnson dismisses the question about £21m to a Spanish businessman and waffles some garbage about needing to move quickly. He only has sophistry, never answers. #PMQs
Johnson pretending Starmer’s complaint is the government moved too fast, not that it wasted millions of taxpayers’ money profiting its friends and donors in ways most people would judge irredeemably corrupt. That was 15 mins of our lives we’ll never get back. 5 years, in fact.
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