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Mar 20 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
#KeepingTheReceipts week 44.

As war rages on in Ukraine with the UK issuing further sanctions, more Conservative links with prominent Russians emerge, the #CostOfLivingCrisis looms over working families, and the police become embroiled in further scandals...
1. Kicking off, at the start of the week Johnson’s government were set to accept a £2,000 pay rise for MPs as the cost of living crisis hits, with millions being pushed to the brink:


2. The government also quietly dropped plans to cap MPs’ earnings from second jobs, following the lobbying scandal that arose in the wake of the Owen Paterson debacle.
3. Amid growing concerns over economic security for Brits, chancellor Rishi Sunak was accused of imposing a £21bn ‘stealth tax’ on UK workers.
4. And new stats show that the country’s rich are continuing to get richer, with pay rises of just under £3k, while the poorest only received a rise of £167
5. As fuel prices continued to rise, the PM set off to Saudi Arabia for oil talks to end the UK’s on Russian energy, despite them having just executed 81 men in a single day:
6. It also emerged that Johnson had been warned by the security community about the risks of awarding a peerage to his friend, Evgeny Lebedev.
7. Elsewhere, a report detailing that the Met Police had spent £18m on informants was released, with the police refusing to say whether they targeted BLM activists.
8. New figures also highlighted how 80% of UK police accused of domestic abuse stayed in their posts:
9. And while the UK introduced more sanctions on Russia, the daughter of a banker accused of having FSB connections was found to have met a string of Conservatives in top jobs within Tory groups:
10. And the Labour Party accused Boris Johnson of hiding meetings with Russian Oligarchs at his country residence, Chequers.
@allthecitizens this week published a new investigation detailing how the Conservatives are being lobbied by the “grassroots” Organised Conservative Group, pushing the party further and further to the Right:
And further, uncovered a clip of Johnson, showing him making light of the influence of Russian Oligarchs donating to the Conservative Party...
We’ll return next week. In the meantime, follow @receiptkeepers and @allthecitizens on TikTok/Twitter/Instagram for updates, or subscribe to our substack:
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