PMQs: Boris Johnson to face Keir Starmer as inflation hits 40-year high and rail strikes continue – UK politics live

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MPs are expected to grill the PM on the cost of living crisis and ongoing rail strikes

was also asked if he agreed with Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England, who said recently the government needed to deliverO’Neill agreed this was a problem. He said:

The government needs, instead of jumping from one policy and seemingly trying to pander to everyone’s whims, to develop a clear and articulate policy framework of which we don’t have one.Big hike planned in value of state pensions ‘ludicrous’, says former Tory Treasury minister It seems to me pensioners, given the pressure on fiscal policies and these inequality issues now for the past decade and beyond, the constant protection of pensioners seems ludicrous in itself and, in these circumstances, particularly crazy.

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