The Daily Mirror – ‘PM jokes over mine closures: Johnson is the pits’
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The Daily Mirror – ‘PM jokes over mine closures: Johnson is the pits’
“Johnson is the pits”, says the headline in the Daily Mirror as it reports the prime minister’s assertion that Margaret Thatcher gave the UK an “early start” in the move away from coal-fired power by shutting coal mines in the 1980s. Boris Johnson has been “blasted” by communities affected by the former PM’s policy, it says.
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