A NORTH East MP has asked Boris Johnson how he can sleep “with so much blood on his filthy, privileged hands,” in the House of Commons today as Sue Gray publishes her report on lockdown-breaking parties.

Middlesbrough MP, Andy McDonald, stood in the House of Commons today and stressed that the Prime Minister is “laughing in our faces.”

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There has been a massive shift in wealth from the poorest to the richest, the MP continued, and argued that the government has “lined the pockets of their wealthy pals.”

Mr McDonald said: “A partying PM and a law-breaking Rich List Chancellor have lined the pockets of their wealthy pals whilst upwards of 175,000 of our fellow citizens have died from Covid.

“And they are now sitting on their hands and laughing in our faces as the cost-of-living crisis and fuel poverty could well leave thousands more to die of cold in their own homes.

He concluded: “When we saw pictures of the PM partying in the middle of the pandemic, was he toasting his assault on the working class?

“And I ask him, how on earth does he sleep at night with so much blood on his filthy, privileged hands?”

The Prime Minister said: “From furlough onwards everything we have done since the pandemic began has been to get money into the pockets of the working people of this country, and those are the people time and again that we have prioritised.

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“I do not for a moment doubt that things are tough… but it is our intention to get this country through it, and we will get through it very well by putting our arms around people as we can, and as we will because of the fiscal firepower that we have, but also by making sure that we continue with the high wage, high skill, high employment economy.”

An official inquiry into the partygate scandal has said the “senior leadership” in Mr Johnson’s Government must “bear responsibility” for the culture which led to coronavirus lockdown rules being broken.

The Prime Minister faced fresh demands to resign after Sue Gray’s report said the public would be “dismayed” by a series of breaches of coronavirus rules in No 10 and Westminster.

“The events that I investigated were attended by leaders in government. Many of these events should not have been allowed to happen,” she said.

The Metropolitan Police has issued 126 fines for rule breaches in No 10 and Whitehall, with the Prime Minister receiving a single fixed-penalty notice for his birthday party.

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