Poor people or power? Theresa May has made her priority shockingly clear | Frances Ryan

Now that desperate people have seen how money can somehow be found to pay off the DUP, they are going to get very angry with this government

Watch Theresa May scramble in the shadow of no majority and the subsequent paper-thin Queen's speech and it's as if government as we know it has been entirely disbanded. While EU negotiations and a costly DUP deal take centre stage (and 1bn of public money) a domestic policy agenda is missing in action.

This would be disturbing at the best of times, but it is happening as Britain teeters on the edge of its worst living-standards crisis in modern politics.

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