Boris Johnson’s GMB interview shows ‘narcissistic’ PM ‘out of touch’, says Labour – UK politics as it happened

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Afternoon summary

• Boris Johnson has used a major TV interview to signal that he is opposed to bringing forward benefit rises to help people with the cost of living because it could be inflationary. (See 10.26am.) He conceded that the government had not yet done enough to provide people with the help they needed, but, although he said “there is more that we can do”, he said nothing to indicate what this might involve, or when further support might be provided. Labour said that in the interview Johnson came across as narcissistic and out of touch. (See 11.36am.)

• Johnson has told the Ukrainian parliament that there should never be a peace settlement imposed against the will of the Ukrainian people, calling the fight to hold back Russian forces “Ukraine’s finest hour”.

• Legal challenges to the policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda could be a reason why the plan has not yet, as intended, started to deter unofficial Channel crossings, Downing Street has said.

• Keir Starmer has accused the Conservatives of “mud-slinging” over allegations he broke lockdown rules after a photograph emerged of him drinking a beer with staff in a constituency office last year.

• BP’s profits more than doubled to $6.2bn (£5bn) in the first three months of the year, adding to pressure on ministers to impose a windfall tax to aid households struggling with soaring energy and fuel bills.

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Keir Starmer campaigning in Bitterne Village, Southampton, today. Photograph: Peter Cary/PA