Labour leader also used prime minister’s questions to attack PM over taxes and cost of living
“Look, there are only two possible explanations: either he’s trashing the ministerial code or he’s claiming he was repeatedly lied to by his own advisers and didn’t know what was going on in his own house and his own office,” Starmer said.
Rabb added that he did not expect that the prime minister’s wife, Carrie Johnson, would have to disclose any fine since she was not a member of government, although she shares a home with the prime minister. Asked several times whether the PM agreed with the justice secretary, the spokesperson said: “We will not be commenting further on the detail of what happened until the investigation is completed.” Pressed again, he added: “It simply would not be right for me to give the prime minister’s view in the midst of an ongoing police investigation.”
“Yes, I certainly do,” Johnson replied, citing the cut in fuel duty in the statement, and the promise to cut income tax rates by 1p in 2024, saying this would mitigate the impact of the rise in national insurance to fund the NHS and social care.
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