Prime minister will later head to Brussels for last-ditch trade deal talks
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Johnson says he was “astounded” to see that 42 Labour MPs wrote to the home secretary opposing the deportation of foreign dangerous criminals. Sir Keir Starmer maintained his “Delphic silence” on the matter, he says.
Caroline Lucas, the Green MP, says the government’s export finance department will back the East Africa pipeline. This undermines the government’s credibility on climate change, she says. Does the PM approve, or is the department going rogue?
Johnson says hydrocarbons remain an important industry. He says Lucas has actually supported the government’s stance.
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