Keir Starmer ripped into Boris Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions, minutes after he'd been battered by damning revelations in Sue Gray's report.
The Labour leader lead his questions on the Tories apparent plans to push ahead with a windfall tax and even turned the PM's Captain Hindsight joke back on him.
Mr Starmer asked the PM what "attracted" him to end up following Labour's calls and decide to launch the levy on oil and gas companies set to come later this week.
The Labour leader said: "Fifteen tax rises and they pretend they are a low-tax Government. It’s been four and a half months since Labour first called for a windfall tax on oil and gas profits… every week he has a new reason for not doing it.”
He added: “He ordered all his MPs to vote against it last week, and now, surprise surprise, he’s backing it. Prime Minister I’m told that hindsight is a wonderful thing… whilst he dithered and delayed households across the country suffered when they didn’t need to.
“What is it about the Sue Gray report that first attracted him to a U-turn this week?”
The Prime Minister managed to stutter a response: “There is no surprise about Labour’s lust to put up taxes.
"There is nothing original about… they get on it. They absolutely love to confiscate other people’s assets.
"What we prefer to do is make sure that we have the measures that are in place to drive investment in our country and drive jobs."
After weeks of being called out by the statistics watchdog, the PM has stopped lying about Britain's economic growth, and instead added: "And it’s thanks to the steps that we took, thanks to the fact that we came out of Covid faster than any other European country."
Mr Starmer said he looked forward to discussing the Sue Gray report after Mr Johnson’s statement later, but noted he wanted to focus on the cost of living.
“Hundreds of millions of pounds have been added to bills of families across the country, and hundreds of millions of pounds have landed in the bank accounts of energy companies.
“It sounds like he’s finally seen sense and the inevitable U-turn may finally have arrived. So when can people across the country expect him to use those oil and gas profits to bring down their bills?”
