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Sir Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of performing the "hokey cokey" over imposing a windfall tax on oil and gas giants to help tackle the cost of living crisis.

The Labour leader said "one minute they are ruling it in, the next they are ruling it out" as he urged the Prime Minister to back the levy.

Sir Keir also predicted that the Government will eventually be forced into rolling out the policy as he said "every single day he [Mr Johnson] delays his inevitable U-turn - he is going to do it - he is choosing to let people struggle when they don't need to".

The Prime Minister repeated the Government's position that it does not currently want to impose the tax but it is not ruling out doing so in the future.

Read the full article here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/05/18/boris-johnson-news-windfall-tax-cost-living-sunak-starmer/

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