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#BORISJOHNSON

The former foreign secretary says he will raise the 40p threshold from £50,000 to £80,000 if he becomes prime minister.

@Adambienkov said: “There are now 14.2 million people living in poverty in the UK, with 320,000 people without a home and 1.6 million food bank parcels distributed last year. Boris Johnson’s first priority: A £10 billion tax cut for high earners.”

@lssmyrs commented: “Is this just real life? Or is this a dystopian novel? Vol 387: Boris Johnson is proposing cuts to higher rate income tax that will be funded by increasing National Insurance contributions. Quite literally taking from the poor to give to the rich.”

@tom_watson, Labour deputy leader, posted: “Last week Boris Johnson announced a derisory £50m extra a year for state school spending. Today it’s 200 times that on tax cuts for the richest 8%. Is he blinkered by privilege, or simply couldn’t give a damn about the rest of the country?”

@Otto_english noted: “Boris Johnson to hike 40p tax rate from £50,000 to £80,000. By an astonishing coincidence current MPS’ salary is £79,468.”

ggg said: “Boris Johnson has found a magic money tree to promise tax cuts for people earning more than £50,000. But there is still no magic money tree for public sector workers.”

@Peternicoll7 added: “National Insurance is not devolved. So, Scots will subsidise the Boris Johnson plan to use increased NICS to (partly) pay for a tax break for higher earners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.”

#JUSTINBIEBER

Fans are confused at singer Justin Bieber challenging film star Tomcruise to a fight in the UFC ring. Some are even predicting who would win the face-off.

@Epsilontheory said: “Justin Bieber is 30 years younger and (probably) 5 inches taller than Tom Cruise. I’d bet a large sum that neither man has been in a real fight in his entire life. And yet I would bet a larger sum that Tom Cruise wins this fight.”

@Brilockis posted: “As crazy as Tom Cruise is, I still enjoy his movies and he would most definitely squish that wannabe.”

@Halcyonember added: “When 2018 was bad we should have just stopped, but no, now we’re here in 2019 and look what happens.”