Full exchange: Angela Rayner grills Oliver Dowden on cost of living crisis and child poverty

Angela Rayner grilled Oliver Dowden on the cost of living crisis and child poverty.
Ms Rayner started the exchange at PMQs on 12 July pointing out that the last time the deputies stood in at PMQs two weeks running was in 1996.
Inspired by John Prescott’s question back in 1996, she points out that “tens of 1000s of families are facing repossession and homelessness” due to the ‘Tory mortgage bombshell”.
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[@hugorebelo129]

The stark difference between the attitude of Braverman (nodding furiously) and the despair of Penny. Clearly the later is ashamed of being there

[@roberttalbot6397]

Come on Angela 😂

[@sithvsjedi9696]

Well done again Angela 👍🏼

[@clarebell5926]

4:25 ‘Mr speaker, once again he talks about ‘balancing the books’ - his party crashed the economy’ 😂😂 LOVE Angela Raynor!!

[@johnm9845]

Meanwhile in the background Mordant is updating her CV

[@MaestroPlaymaker]

We need a general election now

[@grateberk6435]

Its too late. We are buggered

[@vernonalexis704]

They killed pensioners and many more

[@excess824]

That is for the conservatives only until 2025

[@lizm4580]

They need to be getting on with domestic policies not wars!! Our country is falling apart!!!!

[@Megatron-sl5us]

Brexit failed. Rejoin the EU.

[@johngalvin3124]

Grovelling Dowden bragging his parents bought their council home says it all.

[@DrWho-vc2go]

2:45 The only reason the Tories did that, was because they thought it would keep them in power. They are losers which ever way they turn.

[@chimpy9823]

Well said mate 👍

[@DrWho-vc2go]

@@chimpy9823 Thanx.

[@chimpy9823]

@@DrWho-vc2go I say it as I see it they've decimated the country apart from the London area and we "up North" get scraps if we are lucky 😡

[@davidbrock2871]

I seem to have missed something. When did Oliver Dowden become Prime Minister. And what happened to Rishi. Has Dowden kidnapped him; has he gone back to Goldman Sachs; is he suffering from terminal depression; has he disappeared to another dimension; or has Dominic You-know-who had to satisfyhis blood lust again. While we're at it, it was rather shocking to see Cruella Braverman in the house. I thought she'd gone awol. But maybe she only turns up, when she hasn't got any awkward questions to answer.

[@pistolpunkworld]

Guy Fawkes had the right idea !!

[@NoName-ex7ne]

Guy fawkes...only man with honest intentions to walk into that forsaken building

[@kevlacy5306]

How can you call it a living wage when people cant afford to live on their wages!?

[@alana8863]

Worst government ever.

[@valansley]

Well, Angela Raynor is DEFINITELY NOT the SOLUTION

[@craig1669]

I think you'll find the worst British government was the one that plunged us into an economic crisis in the first place. If AR wants real answers, she should try asking the last Labour chancellor.

[@chimpy9823]

@@valansley is that the best you can come up with ? She's a dam sight better than the dross in the Tory party ! Remind me how many Tory ministers and prime ministers have been caught out telling lies etc and have been kicked out ??

[@LWQ15881]

@@valansleyshe’s certainly better than any Tory. Tory and incompetence fit together like a hand and a glove.

[@chimpy9823]

@@LWQ15881 well said 👍

[@colingarner6175]

Ms Rayner is totally out of her depth . She doesn’t have a clue .

[@davidburley106]

Freezing fuel duty??? How when fuel has rose again? How are you helping when you put minimum wage up by 70p per hour but yet my bacon has gone up by 50p per pack pet alone all my other products while shopping. Car tax has rose, car insurance has rose, petrol has rose, food has rose, rent has rose, gas and electricity have rose, interest rates have rose Effectively making the rich richer and the poor poorer So how are you helping at all???? The tories have made us poor folk even worse off and i owe money each month to my mother just to live. Its only a matter of time before my mother runs out of money too

[@trevorsomers8344]

Because the more money that is in wages and people's pockets keeps inflation high. A recession is needed

[@chimpy9823]

Spot on David, I feel for you mate, meanwhile everything is peachy in Tory land 😳😡🤬

[@AngeelLuisSk]

ANGELA!!

[@ruperttristanblythe7512]

2.07 caught playing on their mobile phones

[@mrheavywater]

I am Labour through and through but I am not voting again due to the ulez

[@hruugrkhhh8974]

Energy should be Free ! because energy companies are subsidized by government with hard working tax payers money Energy companies are selling tax payers money produced Energy back to the working people at high price ( working people charged twice ), making huge profits at tax payers expense, even though the Energy companies are subsidized using tax payers money, also working tax payers get NO discounts or shares in Energy companies either for giving our tax money to the Energy companies to produce Energy. Taxpayers money are handed to businesses ( £93bn a year - a transfer of more than £3,500 from each household in the UK.) Direct aid, subsidies, tax breaks - the hidden welfare budget we don’t debate The total emerges from the first comprehensive account of what Britons give away to companies in grants, subsidies and tax breaks, published exclusively in the Guardian. Many of the companies receiving the largest public grants over the past few years previously paid little or zero corporation tax, the analysis shows. They include some of the best-known names in Britain, such as Energy companies , Amazon, Rolls Royce, Ford and Nissan. The figures intensify the pressure on the chancellor, just as he puts the finishing touches to his budget. At the heart of Wednesday’s announcement will be his plans to cut £12bn more from the social welfare bill. Yet that sum is less than the £14.5bn given to companies in direct subsidies and grants alone

[@stevendavis2122]

I’m surprised the Tory front bench haven’t armed themselves with umbrellas when Angela stands up.

[@samgrainger1554]

You got her good!

[@Scitch-et4vk]

Champagne socialist

[@frederickmiles327]

Jeremy Corbyn was at least understandable Dowden, the faux aristocrat is inexplicable. Corbyn was middle class, the son of a Professional English Electric Engineer, and a Grammar School Maths teachers, a Latin Scholar at Haberdashers Grammar in Newport, Corbybs 2 A grade E levels were about equivalent to Paul McCartneys 2;min A levels in Literature and Art or my mediocre A Bursary Marks in 1974 in NZ 44!History, 42 English 59 Geography, 52 Economics 38 Accountancy ; these are equivalent minimal UE passed on shere intelligence I only had revised enough 4/5 questions in both History and Geography having no interest in the Tudors and Stuart's and 3)Geography questions were essentially intelligence/Comprehension and spatial questions . Nevertheless UK A levels in the late 1960s ( and indeed until Shirley Williams the 1978 Min education) destroyed any rigour and standard in the system . Corbyn was seen as sufficiently Ernest and clean cut for the UK Foreign Service to appoint him to a three year position as a secondary school Grammar position in Kingston, Jamaica as a Geography position He managed 18 months teaching 4 geography strwams in the only school in Jamaica for students who passed the UK 11+ before resigning in anger after the appalling inequality and exploitation of the poor and indeed most people and indeed radicalised by the events in Jamaica and the cohort of other young teachers from the UK This is understandable in 1968-8.@Junior Dowden undoubtedly soehy a decade getting drunk and hirelbwrexjibg Oxford, Cambridge, Chelsea and St Johns Wood Corbyn while stupidly prejudiced against Capitalism and success, would have realised that Lithuania , a a Catholic pimple in Russia and the one portion of the old USSR which has nothing to do with Russia should simply have been given independence in 1989 with the rest of the old discredited Warsaw Pact , Far too much blood and arms have already been expended on Zelenski in awar that was supposed to be over and win in May 2922, Sept 2922, June 2923 according to retired General Pretraeus and the very juniormemberfie Bournemouth Tobias EllwoodmIn British Army General Jackson avoided the reckless anti Russian aggression of NATO Commander Wesley Clark, Pretraeus superior and a UK army with the xalicrw of officers if 23 years bike would have been sensible it to repeat the mistakes of General Kitchener or Churchill 1919!and Feb 1940. , Winston calling for war on Russia to defend Finland Dowden will be calling for the Marines to occupy Scotland next, the logical conclusion of his logic.Ajd actually the Russians are Europeans like the English,vtge Chinese are not and in terms of Zelenski they appear toge Cuban

[@mcjeebus]

It'd be even worse if Labour and been overseeing covid, we'd have borrowed three times as much...

[@erfilika1119]

So many words and not a thing said

[@yasdnilknarf1885]

And do people really believe it will be better under Labour? Have they forgotten who originally crashed the economy in 2009?

[@craig1669]

I can't wait for Labour to come in, borrow borrow borrow, waste waste waste, plunge us into another economic crisis, cripple future generations with debt and then spend the next decade blaming the tories for not fixing Labour's mess quick enough. It's the circle of life in UK politics.

[@chassidyswann8951]

Get a grip!

[@LWQ15881]

I remember and if I recall wasn’t it RBS going bankrupt that made the government have to bail them out?

[@chimpy9823]

How long have the Tories been in power ?? change the record ! They've had plenty of time to run the country correctly and time after time they cock it up. I fear for the peasants like myself if they get in again as there isn't much more they can ruin in the country. Where I am from, the North, Tories policies have killed off everything and don't get me started on leveling up.....if they had done their job properly there wouldn't be a need to level up !!!! They shouldn't have gone ahead with their vanity project of HS2 as it's a waste of tax payers money that we could have used for better things IE. schools, health care and road repairs to name a few.

[@craig1669]

@LWQ15881 so you don't remember the last Labour chancellor leaving a note for the incoming Conservative Chancellor stating "there is no money left" ???? How about the billions upon billions wasted in Iraq by Blair and his cronies? 2 wars based on Blairs lies that Saddam Hussain had WMDs capable of hitting the UK in 15 mins?? But no, of course its the tories fault for not cleaning labour's mess up quicker isn't it? 🤔 This is also why Labour prey on the youth in Britain..... anyone in their late 20's and upwards remembers what a mess they've made of this country. The only positive I can give Labour over the past 30 years or so is (finally) taking Corbyn out of the picture. God only knows how bad it would have been under his 'leadership'

[@dalebenton3354]

Be glad when Cost of living crises start to drop for once,Why cost of living keeps on going up,Because people want more money all the time,How about sending the whole nation out to work,They can start getting there own moneys for once,Thats includes migrants,Foreiners and even ukraine and russia,Start getting all your own moneys for once,Make them all start working hard all the way across the country would be better,Not having money keep on being handed out for free and would Labour do any better,No they open up the borders even more,Let every one else in

[@davidburley106]

As a single, white, english male with no dependents and just lost my job of 16 years. I can tell you now, us english dont get enough from universal credit £300 per month My cost of living is around £800 per month Yet if i was not born in this country or have several children, or im disabled i would be getting £1500-2000 a month and a hotel to live in These are all accurate payouts as i know people getting this for having children or not being english. Massive issue when this country looks after others more than our own. It says alot

[@crispyduck1706]

The speech impediment makes her even more comedy gold than the content

[@silversurfer640]

crispyduck1706 It's not a speech impediment, she's a northerner. If you are from South of Watford, you probably think everyone north of Watford has a speech impediment.

[@samgrainger1554]

You got her good!

[@craig1669]

How many kids have Labour invited over in small boats to add to the housing crisis? They left a letter to the incoming tory chancellor stating there "is no money left" then spent the next 12 years blaming the tories and criticising how they fixed labours mess. No answers, no solutions (except borrow and spend, plunging future generations into further debt that can never be repaid), no thought for the honest citizens already struggling, no plans, no courage to make the difficult decisions, no help to the british public, weaken our defences, leave Nato and abandon the Ukrainians. Were just supposed to believe that simply by voting labour, a magic wand will be waved and the country is saved??

[@maurstan52]

What will be the note this government will leave? We broke all Covid rules, we were partying while you buried your loved ones. We made the economy crash causing interest rates to sore , offered no apology plummeting many into financial distress, our leader lied constantly and took no responsibility for those lies. You haven’t stoped the boats but demonised people fleeing conflict and hardship. All in all the president set by this government is that telling lies and thinking honest working people have to just suck up the chaos caused by this government through Brexit will be the cause of significant hardship for generations to come.

[@AndrewLord]

Thick as mince

[@endzone13]

Also, the Tories have plans to help people? Name one.

[@trevorsomers8344]

Stop giving everyone pay rises......get more cash out of circulation..... reduce inflation! Recession is needed. People need to loose houses!! This will never end if the government keep giving hand outs. Too many entitled people who must have a car. Must have a mobile phone. Must have Sky TV. Must have holidays. I really would love a nuclear world war. Too many idiots alive today!!

[@davidburley106]

And you have people like me who need a car, live in a caravan and still cant afford rent. Its not the poor who should lose homes Its the politician’s and property port folio rich people who need and should lose houses

[@trevorsomers8344]

@@davidburley106 it's everyone with a mortgage that should loose homes. You obviously have never experienced a really bad recession!!! And I was also homeless in a caravan 17 years ago. Now I live in social housing. Never buy a house! Buying a house is the Worst advice ever! I got myself back on my feet because I am the only person who can make luck for myself. Same with everyone! Deal with it and stop moaning! You should try learning to walk and talk again after waking from a Coma due to a car accident. You make your own luck in life..... everyone today thinks they are entitled to everything!!!!

[@davidorf3921]

Anyone who would welcome a nuclear war is clearly an idiot

[@silversurfer640]

trevorsommers8344 Let's hope you lose your house then, if that's the case.

[@trevorsomers8344]

@@silversurfer640 only will effect idiots who thought they were being sensible getting a mortgage and buying a house!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡

[@josefkrajcir1059]

.... abandon Ukraine and abolish the military that would last a couple of days in a conventional conflict sounds like the most sensible thing to do ....

[@sithvsjedi9696]

Indeed. We should keep the Royal Navy though. That has always been good to us.