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Hello and welcome to Political Thinking.

I'm Nick Robinson.

Just when you thought, hoped that life was getting mad

to something like normal, that politics had already become normal,

we find ourselves talking once again about the threat from COVID.

And yet even this week, the subject at the heart of exchanges

in Prime Minister's questions was the same as before we'd ever heard the word Omicron.

It is whether Boris Johnson is a man who breaks the rules whose word can't be trusted.

He plays politics and asks for frivolous questions, Mr Speaker.

We're getting on with delivering on the people's priorities.

And we're putting record investments into the NHS on top of the 34 billion

with which we began.

And then the 97 billion that we put in to fight COVID.

We, we, it's the same old story from this Prime Minister.

We, Ken, we count, defending the indefensible and broken promises.

His mates were found to be corrupt.

He tried to get them off the hook.

Downing street throws parties during lockdown.

He says not a problem.

He promised there'd be no tax rises.

Then he put up tax.

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