PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak is too weak to refuse to fund Boris Johnson’s legal fees, according to the chair of the Labour Party.
Anneliese Dodds, also Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary, slated the PM when asked about fresh allegations levelled against Mr Johnson.
She told GB News: “What really matters here is the amount of taxpayer money that’s going to fund Boris Johnson’s legal bills, which is into the hundreds of thousands of pounds now. Yet Rishi Sunak seems to be perfectly happy with this arrangement and is too weak to stand up to Boris Johnson over his legal bills.
“Of course, Boris Johnson is making a lot of money at the moment from different speech appearances, so surely he could pay his own legal bills, but we’ve seen the same pattern. We saw the same pattern with Dominic Raab.
“And it’s the same pattern, of course with Suella Braverman when she broke security rules and now other allegations about her behaviour.
“But Rishi Sunak just seems to be too weak when it comes to those interests in his party. He’s not putting the interests of our country and particularly British taxpayers first.”
In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, she also criticised the Government for failing to tackle food price inflation.
She said: “Why aren’t we seeing the Conservative Government introducing a proper windfall tax to use the proceeds from that to tackle the cost of living crisis? Why aren’t we seeing them taking action on food prices which are almost going up by nearly 20% at the moment. This is a huge increase on people’s weekly food shop and yet no action coming from the Conservatives on this.
“Again, Labour set out actions we will be taking right now to be tackling food price inflation, so there’s a huge amount that Government should be focused on delivering right now.
“The Bank of England will deliver what’s within its independent mandate. It’s their decision, what choices they take, but there’s a lot the Government could and should be doing that it’s failing to do.”
She added: “We do have that long term plan for the UK economy. We’re determined that instead of our country going backwards, which it so often has over the last 13 years, that we want our economy to be the most highly growing, the most sustainable growth in all of the G7, we are determined to achieve that.
“And Rachel [Reeves] will be setting out plans today on how she will make sure that happens. She will be setting out our green prosperity plan, for example, also our industrial strategy, and how we work in partnership with business.
“People’s living standards in our country have been stagnating or going backwards under the Conservatives, Labour would reverse that.”
