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UK politics live news: Keir Starmer presses Boris Johnson over criminal justice and Windrush at PMQs

UK politics live news: Keir Starmer presses Boris Johnson over criminal justice and Windrush at PMQs

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Labour’s Olivia Blake asks if the PM will agree to a funding boost for local welfare systems.

Johnson says many families are facing great hardship. And he repeats what he said earlier about the extra £63m going to councils that he said could help them provide meals for poor pupils during the school holidays.

Stuart Anderson, a Conservative, asks Johnson to commit to measures to help Wolverhampton.

Johnson says he will. He rattles off some investment figures for Wolverhampton.

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