Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

PMQs: A scrappy battle of the deputies

Credit: Parliament TV

Throwing money away. That was the big topic at PMQs today. Rishi Sunak has flown to Washington for talks with Joe Biden, (which is probably the President’s only scheduled appointment this month.) The deputies slugged it out in the Commons. Angela Rayner brought up an admission by the Public Accounts Committee that a fortune in tax-payers’ money has flown out of the window. A total of £21 billion is missing, presumed stolen. Rishi’s understudy, Oliver Dowden, claimed that things weren’t that bad because a quarter of the lost money would be found.

‘We’re working tirelessly to recover those funds,’ he said. Tirelessly? He sound like a bored rescue-worker tackling a house-fire with a water-pistol.

Here’s the bottom-line. The Tories have waved bye-bye to £15.25 billion of our money. And no wonder YouTube is full of videos teaching people how to get rich, perfectly legally, by winning UK government contracts. Rayner asked him again about Tory profligacy.

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