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Feb 9, 2022 11 tweets 6 min read Read on X
🔴Boris Johnson is set to face Sir Keir Starmer at today's #PMQs and is unlikely to apologise for his remarks over the Labour leader and Jimmy Savile, according to the health minister

Follow live updates below 👇
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🚨Boris Johnson says it is his intention to return on the first day after the half-term recess to "present our strategy on living with Covid"
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🗣️Sir Keir Starmer asks if people are being "forced to take out a loan" as they will have to pay back the energy bill payment they will receive in October.

Boris Johnson labels his scheme "faster, generous and more effective" than Labour's alternative
Sir Keir Starmer urges Boris Johnson to "stand up to his Chancellor, support families rather than loading them with tax".

➡️He notes that Shell and BP's profits have risen by billions in the last year
🗣️Keir Starmer labels Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson "the loan shark Chancellor and his unwitting sidekick" which "leaves taxpayers in debt".

"It's all one big scam and people across the country are paying the price" | #PMQs
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Fabian Hamilton refers to a photograph that has just emerged that appears to show Boris Johnson "surrounded by alcohol, food and people wearing tinsel" on December 15, 2020

"Will the Prime Minister be referring this party to the police?" he asks | #PMQs
💬Tory MP Mark Harper asks Boris Johnson to commit at the Despatch Box to ensuring Sue Gray's final report is published "immediately and in full".

"As soon as all of the inquiries are concluded I will immediately publish in full whatever Sue Gray gives me," Mr Johnson confirms
🔴Mark Harper, the Tory MP for the Forest of Dean, once again asks Boris Johnson to commit at the Despatch Box to ensuring Sue Gray's final report is published "immediately and in full"

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🔴Dominic Cummings suggests more pictures exist

After the publication in the Daily Mirror of a new image showing Boris Johnson with an open drink bottle at a virtual No 10 quiz, his former aide has weighed in

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🔴A new photograph from an event on December 15, 2020 may not be enough to "reheat" the "partygate" saga - but could be enough to tip the balance over the event, says @Tony_Diver, our Political Correspondent
@Tony_Diver 🗣️Sir Keir Starmer's attacks on the Government at PMQs felt a "little bit desperate", says @OliviaUtley, our Assistant Comment Editor

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