As the cost of living crisis deepens, Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has accused the government of being willing to sit and watch people “financially drown”.
With inflation soaring to its highest level in 40 years, Sir Keir Starmer used PMQs to repeatedly ask Boris Johnson to commit to a windfall tax on the massive profits of energy companies.
The Labour leader claimed that after having “dithered” on the policy, the prime minister will end up supporting it in an “inevitable U-turn”.
Meanwhile, a Tory MP arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault over historic allegations was released on bail.
The unnamed MP, who is in his fifties, was asked by his party’s whips not to attend parliament while a police investigation is ongoing. Liz Truss said she was “very, very concerned about the reports.”
The arrest comes just weeks after Westminster was rocked by another round of “Pestminster” allegations against sitting MPs – which led Tory MP Neil Parish to resign for watching porn in parliament.
