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Jan 25 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"Yet another vital service on its knees after 13 years of Tory government" - Keir Starmer

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"Is he starting to wonder that this job is just too big for him?"

Keir Starmer accuses Rishi Sunak of being "hopelessly weak" in #PMQs.
Stephen Flynn asks Rishi Sunak for advice on protecting personal finances:

Should people "seek out a future chair of the BBC to help secure an £800,000 loan"?

Should they "set up a trust in Gibraltar"?

Or should they apply for "non-dom status"?

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Rishi Sunak defends the Rwanda policy allowing the "detention and removal" of people who "come here illegally". #PMQs

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The economist who predicted the 2008 crash warns that a combination of uncontrolled inflation and ballooning debt will push the world economy into ruin.

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