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PMQs in five minutes https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/a26027d1-e61a-4f3a-b335-77d8fe3bd998
Wouldn't want you to have developed a sense of hope or spiritual reassurance. We'll have none of that here.
Johnson says Windrush was a "scandal" and the best is being done to "collectively to make amends". This is false, of course. If it were true, they would not be creating the conditions for precisely the same situation to arise with European citizens.
Starmer says Help for Heroes is struggling during pandemic and wants got to do whatever it can to help armed forces charities. Johnson agrees, obviously.
Starmer: Chancellor gave just £6m to forces charities. Wants that reconsidered, given it spent £670K for PR consultants, as revealed this weekend - and indeed has spent £130M this year alone on PR companies.
Johnson says this is about the vaccines taskforce. Usual tactic - wants Starmer to pay tribute etc etc. The PR, Johnson says, is to "fight the anti-vaxers".
Starmer says real question "about the way contracts are being awarded... this is not the PM's money, it's taxpayes money."
Getting into it now. Says govt paid £150m to a company to deliver facemasks. How many usable facemasks were actually provided to NHS workers under that contract.
Wait for it.... wait for it..... Johnson doesn't answer the question. Shocking I know. Instead delivers a speech defending the private sector in the abstract.
Starmer: "The answer is none. Not a single facemask."
Consultants paid £7K a day to work on test-and-trade. One company given contract for £347m, despite having to recall 750K unused covid tests on safety grounds.
"There's a sharp contrast between way govt sprays money at companies that don't deliver and their reluctance to provide long-term support to businesses and working people at the sharp end of this crisis."
Starmer moves on to gaps in support for self-employed. Seven months on the scheme remains wasteful and badly targeted, he says, quoting Institute of Fiscal Studies and Institute of Directors.
Boring to keep using he same word to describe Starmer's approach here, but it is the right one: forensic.
What;s left often mentioned, but equally important, is that the forensics are deployed in order to substantiate a strong overarching message: One rule for their mates,another for the rest of us.
Angela Eagle asks if Johnson has any advice for his "best friend" Trump, whose refusal to accept the result is dangerous for American democracy.
Johnson says he is "delighted" to find Biden has many common causes with him, focuses on usual environmental policy area. Never heard Johnson mention the environment so much, but all of a sudden it's all he talks about.
Still, we should at least be pleased about good things. Johnson very clear Trump is the "previous president". Honestly, he could well have prevaricated on this - Raab clearly tempted in this direction - and it's reassuring that he isn't.
One more little speech defending the private sector from Johnson. Telling how comfortable he looks celebrating "giant conglomerates". This is the language he naturally speaks.
