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The Prime Minister hit back: “What we are doing is protecting people on low incomes up and down the country.
"We are freezing fuel duty, supporting childcare and of course by the huge package of measures that we’ve brought in, not least the living wage… which is already seeing an increase of £4,000 for every family on the living wage."Keir Starmer highlighted how nurses, supermarket workers and teaching assistants stand to lose more than £1,000 each under the Government’s Universal Credit cut.
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Scottish Conservatives, the Prime Minister congratulated the Scottish Tories on blunting Nicola Sturgeon’s ambitions for an SNP majority at the Scottish elections in May.To cheers at an evening reception, he said: “It is the first time I’ve been able to thank you all in person for the heroic act of depriving the SNP of the majority they so craved.”Johnson went on to launch an outspoken attack on the independence movement, claiming “ the gilt is coming off the gingerbread of the Scottish
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first reported how internal messages revealed it was “extremely unlikely” kebabs and koftas will be part of the initial deal – despite the Prime Minister saying they would be. An official said there is no “deadline” for lifting the ban.Johnson’s announcement prompted a civil servant to email a colleague telling him “some of what he said was misleading”.
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