Scots singer Tom Walker has slammed Boris Johnson and his Tory government in a new song he's released on social media.
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Boris Johnson has come under increased pressure to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas firms' profits amid the growing cost of living crisis. The prime minister has insisted that the government will "put our arms around people" despite declining to specify what support might be offered to struggling households and when.
The treasury appears to have rejected a return to the £20-a-week increase in Universal Credit which was initially rolled out during the coronavirus pandemic. Many MPs have brought a new wave of pressure on the Prime Minister, encouraging him to introduce a windfall tax to pay for a new measure to help poorer households cope with rising food and energy bills.
“No option is off the table, let’s be absolutely clear about that," Mr Johnson said. "I’m not attracted, intrinsically, to new taxes. But as I have said throughout, we have got to do what we can, and we will, to look after people through the aftershocks of Covid, through the current pressures on energy prices that we are seeing post-Covid and with what’s going on in Russia and we are going to put our arms round people, just as we did during the pandemic.”
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He added that there was "more that we are going to do" but "you'll just have to wait a little bit longer". The £20 uplift to Universal Credit was scrapped in October and was seen as a way of targeting help at the poorest in the UK.
Michael Lewis, chief executive of energy giant E.ON UK, said on Sunday that increasing benefits payments would ease the pressure on those facing skyrocketing energy bills accompanied by soaring inflation. Despite this suggestion, it was ruled out by treasury chief secretary Simon
Scots singer Tom Walker has slammed Boris Johnson and his Tory government in a new song he's released on social media.
Boris Johnson has used a speech intended to reset his premiership by speaking about tariffs on olives and bananas.
Boris Johnson will look to relaunch his beleaguered premiership with another cost of living support package tomorrow.
The ex-girlfriend of Boris Johnson has spoken out days after the Prime Minister survived a no confidence vote on Monday (June 6). He will face Parliament on Wednesday (June 8) for the first time since the damaging revolt by Tory MPs.
Renfrewshire politicians have joined forces to heap scorn on "lame duck" Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following a confidence vote in the Commons on Monday night.
The deputy leader of the Labour party has called on the Prime Minister to go after last night's vote of no confidence. Ashton-under-Lyne MP, Angela Rayner, says Boris Johnson is now 'mortally wounded' despite winning the vote among Conservative MPs, calling him 'arrogant, dismissive, a liar'.
Boris Johnson learned his fate on Monday night after a number of his fellow Conservative MPs balloted for a vote of no confidence in his leadership. Despite 148 Tory MPs voting against him, Mr Johnson will remain as Prime Minister after 211 ministers voted in his favour which was enough to secure his position, for now.
Boris Johnson has won the confidence of fellow Conservative MPs this evening and will remain in power as the Prime Minister of the UK. The PM learned his fate when the result was publicly announced by Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of the Conservatives’ 1922 Committee at 9pm this evening (June 6).
Boris Johnson has won tonight’s no confidence vote and will remain the UK Prime Minister.
Ian Blackford has called on Scottish Conservative MPs to help kick Boris Johnson out of Downing Street.
A former Conservative government minister and Boris Johnson supporter has slammed the sale of Channel 4 as an “unnecessary and provocative attempt to address a political non-issue” as the Prime Minister gets ready to face a no confidence vote in his leadership tonight.
Cheeky comedian Lee Mack wasted no time in using the Queen's Platinum Jubilee as an opportunity to stick the knife in Boris Johnson – metaphorically of course.The northern comic, 53, opened the concert, which is being held outside the gates of Buckingham Palace, by making light of the so-called 'partygate' affair in Downing Street. Speaking with the Prime Minister in attendance, who was in the royal box, Mack said: "Finally we can say the words ‘party’ and ‘gate’ and it’s a positive." The joke drew cheers and laughs from the crowd.The embarrassing quip comes just a day after the PM was booed outside St Paul's Cathedral as he attended the Thanksgiving service with members of the Royal Family.
Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross has performed another partygate u-turn by claiming Boris Johnson will have to quit after the war is over in Ukraine.
video snippet of the series.The Sky Original drama is co-written and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The series, first named “This Sceptered Isle,” is based on Boris Johnson’s first months as UK Prime Minister, showing how the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit Britain.Alongside Branagh, who won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for “Belfast” this year, Ophelia Lovibond will star as Carrie, and Andrew Buchan will play Matt Hancock.Highlights of the plot include Johnson’s dealing with COVID-19, Brexit, and the overlapping of his personal and political lives.
How soon is too soon for a COVID-centric miniseries? For Sky Atlantic, not soon enough, as their series on Boris Johnson and the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic “This England” hits small screens this Fall. READ MORE: Michael Winterbottom To Direct A TV Seris About UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 Response Kenneth Branagh stars as the blonde, mop-headed Prime Minister in the five-episode series.