MNHQ here: got a question for the Prime Minister?

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Hi all,

We’re pleased to tell you that next week Justine will be sitting down with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask him Mumsnet users’ questions.

If you have a question you'd like answering, you can post it below. Please stick to the usual guidelines - one question per user, keep it civil, and if one topic is dominating, please don't continue to post what's effectively the same question or point. We'll be limited for time so do keep questions as short as possible so that we’re able to ask more of them - as always, we'll try to make sure we cover the topics that we know are important to Mumsnet users.

We'll be closing this thread at noon on Monday, so please do get your questions in before that - and watch this space to hear how the Prime Minister responds.

Thanks,
MNHQ

Oh, I thought he had just changed his teacher and was having lessons on a different violin, however quite possible that my recent information is now out of date and he is onto a completely different instrument altogether .

Agree with this

BJ will never admit that he was wrong, as he is a complete and utter liar and cannot be trusted!

How does the desire to reintroduce Imperial measurements promote Global Britain, when only 3 other countries in the world use them routinely?

How is he able to look in the mirror whilst leading a government that prioritises a complete circus of political point-scoring and "he did/ she did" over, you know, actually dealing with the complete and utter shambles that is post-Covid, post-brexit Britain?

This. All he does is lie his way through any interviews.

Why arent disabled people given a living wage from benefits

I agree that he won't answer any questions truthfully, and it isn't even as if any of the questions will make him squirm because the man has no shame.

I don't know why we are bothering, really. It seems that many of us are still operating from the old paradigm in which politicians at least pretended to care about looking as if they were decent, honest law-abiding people. Times have changed, though, and the world is different now.

In pounds, shillings and pence (or decimal if you prefer) what is the most financially beneficial result of Brexit, ie please can you give us voters a specific example (not a generalisation) where can we see a financial benefit right now?

When will we remove trade barriers to ensure frictionless trade with the EU ?

What can you do for full time working single parent households on universal credit, with a good credit history, to secure 1)social housing for life 2)equity for their children's long term outcomes?

When are you going to address the cost of childcare?
I had my first child in 2020 and am currently pregnant with my second. My first born will not be entitled to any free hours at nursery until my second born is 1 year and 4 months old. This means that there will be a period of between 4-5 months when despite being a middle leader (head of faculty) in a secondary school, the cost of childcare will leave me with nothing at all in my wage packet. I say this knowing that I am in a fortunate position compared to many and earn a good wage and so have no idea how others cope. Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control we have no family to help. I was thinking about cutting this maternity leave short due to the cost of living crisis, but realised that this will be of no financial benefit to me, which seems mad.
I feel like my choices are to work for free or leave the profession at a time when all schools I know that have needed to advertise for my subject have not been able to recruit for September, worrying times and something I don’t wish to add to!

Thank you

Following various unforeseen circumstances since the beginning of your premiership how has your view of how this cabinet will be judged by history changed?

"If you have a question you'd like answering, you can post it below"

If I had a question I'd like answering, I wouldn't ask Johnson.

I work for the NHS.

Forget the platitudes about how much you love and value the NHS, the clapping and how grateful you are to the professionals who saved your life when you had covid. I don't want to hear about mythical 40 hospitals being built or imaginary sums of £350million we're bo longer paying the EU.

The NHS is collapsing. Our patients with strokes and heart attacks are waiting 2 hours for an ambulance, hours in A&E, months for physio, OT and appropriate rehab. Demoralised, exhausted and traumatised staff are leaving. What are you going to do to properly fund and support the NHS?

Does he have a theory as to why someone with a prosperous and privileged background would become a compulsive serial liar?

What is the point of this interview? We know he will not tell the truth if the truth is inconvenient to his all consuming drive for self-preservation. This is window dressings - he should be on Newsnight facing professional political journalists, not chatting here to generate carefully chosen sound bites.

Where's the £350 million a week the NHS was promised after Brexit happened?

I would like to ask whether the PM knows anyone who is a full time unpaid carer? If so, how does he justify to them the paltry rate(£69.70) of Carer's Allowance?

If he does not know anyone in that situation, I would be happy to meet with him to discuss it (yes I know, not gonna happen!)

Or…

do you think referring to previous government policy from twelve years ago relevant in most parliamentary debates today.

@mnhq - are you planning to release a transcript of this interview along with a video?

How can you justified unpaid carers being paid 41p an hour for 24/7 work via carers allowance? And on top of that, why are we constantly forgotten when it comes for support? There was nothing ever mentioned about unpaid carers during covid or any measures put into help us despite most of us struggling and begging for help. We as a legacy benefit recipients were ignored alongside the disabled and others for the 20 pound uplift that would have been a huge help in sourcing food and medical supplies that we needed just to keep going on a day to day basis never mind the extra scarcity because of the covid panic buying.

We save the government millions and millions in sacrifices we make daily for those we care about and care for and yet we are forgotten about and nothing is ever done to help us.

When will there be an audit/investigation into the SNP's finances?

I'll happily support and join you in this!

Are you concerned that attacks on the judiciary and civil service; coupled with the decline in standards in public life; and, abuses of power by the executive, poses a risk to democracy and British Values?

Follow up question.

Why won’t you resign? For the good of the country (if not your party)?

I started trying to think of a question, other than the obvious (why haven't you resigned? Can you define integrity? Etc) and then thought, what's the point. I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth so I'm not sure there's any point in asking him anything.