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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Minister mocked for comparing Boris Johnson’s Partygate fine to a speeding ticket: UK politics live

Latest updates: Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, says PM’s fine for breaking lockdown rules is akin to parking ticket

Keir Starmer has also ridiculed the claim that Boris Johnson’s fine for breaking lockdown rules was like a speeding ticket. In an interview on ITV’s Lorraine this morning, he said:

I have never had anybody break down in front of me because they couldn’t drive at 35mph in a 30mph zone; I have had no end of people in tears - in real bits - about complying with rules that really, really hurt them.

At a time when thousands of our constituents are facing the biggest squeeze in their cost of living for a generation, when we are facing a bloody war in Europe the like of which we haven’t seen since the Second World War, when we are seeing a slowdown of the world economy because of all of that - to force the prime minister out and have instability at the top of government for at least two months, as I know as treasurer of the 1922 when we re-selected a successor to Theresa May, I think would be not in the country’s interests.

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