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Apr 26 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Brexit is fuelling the cost of living crisis, but some Tory MPs think Rishi Sunak risks making it worse.

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox
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Includes this clash in the Lords today. City minister @JohnGlenUK told Lord Hannay: “The point is we have left the EU. I just wonder whether you are quite reconciled to that.” Hannay said that suggestion was "improper". Image
.@tnewtondunn challenges @BorisJohnson on why he's only now getting ministers to find more ways to tackle the cost of living.
PM says he'll look at parent-child ratios. But things like breakfast clubs have greater impact on school age kids.

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Includes this impact of the PM's Brexit deal on UK trade relationships with the EU, with a sharp drop in exports. ukandeu.ac.uk/uk-trade-in-th… Image

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Apr 27
.@AngelaRayner is accused today of being “a tiny bit disingenuous in her outrage” over what Tory MPs said about her.
But why can’t she both ridicule the original false accusation levelled at her AND be outraged Tory MPs would weaponise that accusation by claiming it was true?🧵
I’ve no idea what she said on the Commons Terrace, possibly to Tory MPs. But I do know her spokesman said the accusation - she "likes to put Mr Johnson ‘off his stride’ in the chamber by crossing and uncrossing her legs" and “employs the tactic” - was “categorically” untrue.
And @AngelaRayner herself has firmly described the claims as “perverted smears” and “lies”.
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Apr 27
NEW: Brexit has caused a 6% rise in food prices, according to a study out today.

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And @RishiSunak is under fire, one minister in Cabinet yday urging swift tax cuts.
Another tells me: "The VAT cut [on energy] would play perfectly into the govt’s [Brexit] narrative so well. Especially because the Treasury’s energy stuff doesn’t cut it.”

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Contrast today's research with Jacob Rees-Mogg's firm stance in 2019 on the UK replacing EU trade rules with WTO rules: "We can have cheaper food, clothing and footwear straight away."

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Apr 25
Donald Trump gives his strongest hint yet he will run again for President. Asked directly if he'll stand, he tells @TalkTV's @piersmorgan: "A lot of people are going to be very happy"
"The G7, the G20, all the different Gees" is possibly my favourite line. But also his verdict on Boris Johnson: "He's getting a little bit liberal, a little bit green"
Neat timing. As @elonmusk strikes a deal to buy Twitter, Trump tells @piersmorgan that Silicon Valley giants are "sick, mentally ill" for banning him while leaving Putin and others on social media.
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Apr 24
Just discovered that one of the Tory candidates in my ward in the local elections is....the guy in this photo in the red patterned braces lying on the ground, with a wine glass in hand.
The only reason I know is because a LibDem leaflet highlighted it.

Clearly Mr Mallet and the local Conservatives really do think the voters want to "move on" from Partygate.
As it happens, rising taxes (national and local) and cost of living may prove more important issues.

🗨Tories campaigning hard against the highest council tax in England.
🟨Libdems countering Tory govt is hiking up taxes as prices rise.
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Apr 24
.@Keir_Starmer told @sophieraworth his priority is the cost of living, not Partygate.
.@OliverDowden also told @sophieraworth his priority is the cost of living, not Partygate.

No wonder this @IpsosUK poll is the one most worrying some Tory MPs
ipsos.com/en-uk/59-perce…
The @GfK consumer confidence index plunged again this week. An ominous sign for any economy [and sitting govt] that relies on consumption.
But as @OliverDowden says Tory councils 'cost you less', it's precisely 'the cost of the Conservatives' nationally - through higher taxes/energy bills/prices - that is Labour's big local elections push.
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Apr 23
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One MP on the May 5 local elections: “There will be an avalanche of fines after that...That has to be the time when we move against him.”

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.@HugoGye reveals that @BorisJohnson demanded a change of helicopter in India after he was offered a trip in a Russian-made chopper

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