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Jonathan Lis

30 Jun, 6 tweets, 1 min read

If it’s #PMQs it must be Johnson claiming credit for Hancock’s resignation and boasting about Europe’s fastest vaccine rate even though we currently have the highest levels of Covid

Starmer raises the case of a leukaemia patient whose family were unable to visit because of Covid rules. Johnson sounds bored and talks about the Westminster bubble. Starmer sounds genuinely appalled and calls for Johnson to withdraw the remark. Shameful, shameless.

Johnson refuses to withdraw the remark and instead tells the naked lie that we wouldn’t have been able to manage our own vaccine rollout inside the European Medicines Agency

Johnson once again droning on about the speed of the vaccine rollout. *Despite* the rollout we’re in a third wave and subject to the tightest travel restrictions in Europe. In his desperation to distract from his failures he simply draws attention to them.

Johnson concludes the bout with a desperate pivot to mocking Starmer’s promotion of Angela Rayner. I can see ‘we create jobs, he creates non-jobs’ going down a storm on the doorsteps.

Disappointing, incidentally, that it was left to Ian Blackford to raise the issue of the new Windrush scandal starting tomorrow for EU citizens. Once upon a time that might have been a pressing concern for the Labour leadership too.

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