Boris Johnson says the no-confidence vote is “decisive” despite the mass Tory revolt
Boris Johnson is speaking on new housing plans that will allow people to use their advantages to climb the property ladder.
The prime minister is expected to unveil politics in a speech in Blackpool on Thursday afternoon, in a bid to save his political career after 41 per cent of lawmakers expressed distrust in his leadership.
However, the government’s right to buy the plan has been declared a “dangerous trick” by the charity Shelter, with the group’s chief executive urging the prime minister to “stop wasting time” on failed policies.
Shelter CEO Polly Neath said the government’s promise to replace sold social housing through Right to Buy “failed”.
“The government must stop wasting time on the failed policies of the past and start building more than the safe social homes that this country actually needs.
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Economic instability from the war in Ukraine will diminish over time, the prime minister said
Boris Johnson warned Britain that there was no quick solution to the instability caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but that the economic consequences of the war would fade over time.
In a speech in the northern city of Blackpool, Johnson said now was not the time to stop supporting Ukraine, and although gas, oil, grain and fertilizer prices had risen, the West could not force Kyiv to accept peace terms dictated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“And I know that there are some who say that maybe not in this country, but elsewhere, that the cost of supporting Ukrainians is now too high and they should be encouraged to accept whatever conditions Putin asks. “I do not believe that this option is really open to us,” he said.
“Over time, I believe that the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine will subside.
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Boris Johnson hints at reducing tariffs on food
In his speech, Boris Johnson hinted at reducing tariffs on food that is not produced in Britain.
“We don’t grow many olives in the UK, why do we have tariffs on bananas?” The prime minister asked, jokingly adding that not many bananas are grown in Blackpool.
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Thomas Kingsley June 9, 2022 1:32 p.m.
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Boris Johnson’s mortgage benefits plan is “completely separate from reality”
Boris Johnson’s plans to allow low-paid workers to use housing benefits to pay their mortgages are “completely out of touch” and unfeasible, experts say.
This comes as the prime minister tries to divert lawmakers’ attention to the country’s internal problems after surviving a hair’s breadth of a no-confidence vote with severely weakened political authority.
In a speech in Blackpool on Thursday, Mr Johnson will also announce an extension of Margaret Thatcher’s flagship policy for tenants of housing associations – but the plan has already been ridiculed as “confusing” and “unworkable”.
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The tax increases “aberration”, says Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson says it is “time for the government to stop spending and start cutting taxes and regulations.”
He added: “Sometimes the best way the government can help is to get out of the way … If the government has billions, the market has trillions.
Mr Johnson said the recent tax increases were an “aberration” caused by the “Covid fiscal meteorite”, which said “taxes should fall”.
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The government cannot protect everyone from the cost of living crisis, the prime minister said
Boris Johnson said the government could not protect everyone from the cost of living crisis.
He added that an “inflationary spiral” would follow if wages continued to drive prices, adding that the best solution was to raise interest rates.
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“We’re going through this,” says Boris Johnson
Speaking in Blackpool, Boris Johnson called on the United Kingdom to unite.
He says the UK is currently “heading for the wind” as the war in Ukraine and the Covid aftershock create global price pressures.
“We will overcome it, just as we tackled Covid’s far greater challenge,” he said.
The prime minister also called for additional support for Ukraine, stressing that less and less would allow Vladimir Putin to “wrap the knife in the wound” and “the crocodile will simply return for more”.
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What is the right to buy and what can be changed according to government plans?
Boris Johnson will announce his plans today to help lower-income people buy houses as he seeks to reset his hesitant prime minister after Monday’s damaging vote of confidence.
In a speech in Lancashire, the prime minister is expected to present a plan that generally has two main boards.
The first is a commitment to extend the Purchase Right scheme to people renting from housing associations. The second is to allow people to use their housing benefits to pay mortgages.
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The housing plan “reheats the old idea,” says Keir Starmer
Labor leader Keir Starmer said Boris Johnson’s plan to expand the right to buy tenants’ housing associations was a “wrong approach”.
He added: “This is a heated version of an idea that the government had in 2015. They piloted it and it didn’t work. It warms up an old idea – they really are at the end of the road. ”
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“Writing is on the wall”: Boris Johnson will be removed before the next election, says former Tory chancellor
Boris Johnson is doomed to be ousted from his own party ahead of the next general election following a devastating no-confidence vote this week, said former Chancellor Philip Hammond.
The former cabinet minister said the “letters are on the wall” for the prime minister after 41% of his own lawmakers voted to remove him – predicting that his authority would “fall away” in the next few months.
“I do not think he will lead the party in the next general election. “I think a riot of this magnitude is very difficult to survive,” Hammond told Bloomberg.
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Labor compared Boris Johnson to a broken computer that can only be turned off and on “so many times” before realizing that “you just have to get rid of it.”
Opening Business Questions, Shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire said: “I have to say what happened to the Queen’s speech? Did they lose him behind the couch? Where are all these bills that were promised to us?
“Whether it’s waiting for cancer, waiting long for passports and driver’s licenses, or queuing at airports, we are lagging behind in the UK and the leader’s statement does nothing to address it.
“Meanwhile, the prime minister seems to be making another attempt to reset his prime, but, Mr President, there are only so many times when you can try to turn something off and then turn it back on, just to find that it’s still broken and you just have to get rid of it. But Tory MPs have made their choice. “
(via REUTERS)
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