Boris Johnson flew to his last-ditch bid to save his premiership in Blackpool by private, taxpayer-funded jet.
The PM gave a desperate ‘levelling-up’ speech in the seaside town, promising a raft of policies to bring his wavering backbenchers back on side.
He spoke of tackling “increases in the cost of food, the spooling digits on the petrol pumps, energy bills growing seemingly ever larger.”
