David Lammy responds to the PM not updating parliament on India trip

David Lammy MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, responding to Boris Johnson’s failure to make a Commons statement on his trip to India, said:

“The fact that Boris Johnson is running scared from updating Parliament on his fruitless trip to India shows it was nothing more than a pathetic attempt to distract from his lies and law-breaking at home.

“Johnson’s failure to even raise India's neutrality towards Putin's illegal war in his meeting with President Modi was an appalling failure of leadership. 

“The Conservative government is so distracted defending the hapless Prime Minister that it has no answers to the problems facing the country. The government needs to urgently set out an emergency budget which backs Labour’s plan to reduce household bills by up to £600 - with a one-off tax on oil and gas giants who are making booming profits amid a cost of living crisis.”