Starmer tells PM: ‘Hindsight a wonderful thing’

During prime minister’s questions, Starmer focused on the cost of living while the Sue Gray report on partygate loomed.

Following Johnson’s consistent rejection of windfall tax, Starmer told the PM amid reports that the government will back the policy, that “hindsight is a wonderful thing”. 

Johnson neither confirmed nor denied that he would back windfall tax, but told the House of Commons that “there is nothing original about a Labour plan to tax businesses”.