Easter Recess: Government Update Debate

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Easter Recess: Government Update

Marie Rimmer Excerpts
Tuesday 19th April 2022

(2 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Marie Rimmer Portrait Ms Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston) (Lab)
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The Prime Minister genuinely does not seem to understand how he got his fine or what he did to break the law. He wrote, “What an utter nonsense.” If a man is so incompetent that he cannot understand his own rules, is he also a man who cannot understand the public’s challenges given the pace and scale of the soaring cost of living?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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That is exactly why the Government are focused on those issues. That is what we need to get on with. It is about dealing with the aftershocks of covid, and the impact of the Ukrainian crisis on fuel prices and on inflation. That is where we are focused 100%.