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Starmer and Sunak argue about a man called Phil

1 February 2024

12:36 AM

1 February 2024

12:36 AM

Keir Starmer opened PMQs by describing ‘the plight of the Member for Mid Norfolk’, whose mortgage had gone up by £1,200 a month and had to ‘quit his dream job to pay for it’. That Substack post from Tory MP George Freeman isn’t quite as potent as a note left on a Treasury desk, but it allowed the Labour leader to attack Sunak by saying ‘a Tory MP counting the cost of Tory chaos after 14 years, and we finally discovered what they meant when they said ‘we’re all in this together”.

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