Thread by @theSNP

.@Ianblackford_MP: "The flurry of changes in Downing Street over the last few days is a sight to behold - it’s amazing how much energy this Prime Minister can summon up when it comes to saving his own skin." #PMQs

.@Ianblackford_MP: "But while he has been busy rearranging the deckchairs - in the real-world people continue to be punished by the Tory cost of living crisis. " #PMQs

.@Ianblackford_MP: "Yesterday, Open Democracy found that as a direct result of the Chancellor’s national insurance hike, nurses will - on average - take a £275-a-year pay cut in April." #PMQs

.@Ianblackford_MP: "That pay cut will hit at the very same moment that soaring energy bills land - bills that have shot up £1,000 in the space of a year. It is a bill they – and the rest of the public - simply can’t afford." #PMQs

.@Ianblackford_MP: "So rather than the Prime Minister and the Chancellor scrapping over the Tory leadership, will they do something useful and scrap their regressive hike in national insurance?" #PMQs

.@Ianblackford_MP: "I shouldn’t have to remind the Prime Minister that at the same time those nurses were going into work every day to fight a pandemic, 16 different parties were happening in his government." #PMQs

.@Ianblackford_MP: "The public know what nurses sacrificed during the pandemic, and they know exactly what this rule-breaking Prime Minister and his government were up to." #PMQs

.@Ianblackford_MP: "So, are the Prime Minister and his Chancellor seriously telling those nurses that their reward for seeing us through the pandemic is a £275 pay cut?" #PMQs