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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Elly Blake

London politics latest: Boris Johnson accused of having ‘head in sand’ on cost of living as pressure grows for windfall tax

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the Prime Minister to stop the “hokey-cokey” and back Labour’s plan to bring in a windfall tax on energy firms at PMQs.

Boris Johnson told MPs soaring energy costs were driven partly by Covid and the invasion of Ukraine. He said that ministers will look at all the measures that could help “get people through to the other side” of the cost of living crisis.

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