Slithering into the jungle tomorrow, Conservative snake Matt Hancock should be in Britain — not picking up a reported £400,000 cheque in Australia.
I’m A Celebrity viewers are unlikely to be conned by a Tory shedding scales to promote himself as a kind, caring, compassionate former Health Secretary.
Hopefully the campers will hold to account an MP who betrays his West Suffolk constituents and Parliament by leaving them behind to preen himself on television.
This is the man responsible for “throwing a protective ring around care homes” but discharged infected hospital patients into them, the vulnerable and old dying as a result.
Hancock failed to supply adequate PPE to frontline workers then pretended he had.
He was also caught flouting his own social distancing rules by kissing an adviser in his office. We feel sorry for the creepy crawlies who will have to face him in the trials.
Paying a price
Food bills soaring £682, a record 14.7% increase, illustrates why Britons deserve decent pay rises and that benefits and pensions rise at least in line with prices.
Switching to cheaper and supermarket own brands goes only so far when inflation is emptying bank accounts at a rapid rate.
The cost of living crisis is real, awful and getting worse for millions so the wealthiest Prime Minister in modern British history, Conservative leader Rishi Sunak, will never be forgiven if he short-changes households.
No praise would be deserved for keeping Tory promises to peg benefits and pensions, if that’s what happens next week, should the Conservative Government suppress wages.
Cruellest snub
The snub to our nuclear test veterans is particularly painful as we approach Remembrance Sunday.
As the brave band dwindles in number every year, refusing to award the medal they desire and deserve feels unacceptably cruel.
