A Tory MP has told voters the government paying their gas bills is an "illusion" that "isn't going to happen" and people will "have to live with" soaring prices.
Sir Desmond Swayne also said the Covid furlough scheme, which saved millions of Brits from poverty and unemployment, had been "disastrous".
And he added: "This notion that the government can wrap its arms around us and save us from every vagary of the modern world I think is an illusion that was built by our reaction to the COVID crisis, which frankly was disastrous in my view."
