Latest updates: Levelling up secretary says government will miss targets it promised in 2019 and says it is not bound by them * No option off the table on NI protocol, Gove warns EU * Warning further 250,000 UK households face destitution in 2023 * Universal credit deductions pushing people into poverty * Boris Johnson ‘bereft of ideas’ to tackle cost of living crisis * Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates MICHAEL GOVE also used his morning interview round to insist that “no option is off the table” for the UK government in relation to addressing the problems with the Northern Ireland protocol. My colleague ROWENA MASON has the story here. It wasn’t just Greek mythology that got an outing on the MICHAEL GOVE interview round. In his appearance on BBC Breakfast, the levelling up secretary found himself using silly voices, or mock accents, as he responded to claims that Boris Johnson exposed a No 10/Treasury split yesterday when he suggested there would be a significant announcement on help with the cost of living crisis in the next few days, only for the Treasury to say that they did not know what he was talking about. Continue reading...
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