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Q&A brought to you by the subscribers of the new European newspaper. Absolutely. Should we kick

straight off? Let's just go for it. Okay, this is from Mary Devere. Thanks, Mary.

How much did the last Conservative cabinet receive in freebies? And even better, how much did

the Conservatives receive in their 14 years of making everyone poorer? Thank you, Mary.

Yeah, well, I don't know the precise figure, but shitload more than Kirstarm has had in free suits.

Tons! I mean, you know, when you bear in mind all the fuss there was about how to get extra money into Boris Johnson's pockets so he could redo the number 10 flat, which by the way, he charmlessly referred to as like a crack den, which it really wasn't.

I mean, like the idea that Theresa May left, you know,

cracked pipes line around.

Yeah, I mean, the answer is, of course they were, they were taking all sorts of

consultancies and freebies and everything.

Yeah, lining, I mean, not just lining pockets in the sort of, I'm not going to use

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