in hock

On Saturday, Cabinet Minister Lucy Powell told the BBC Labour was "not in hock" to vested interests "at all", and had declared donations correctly.

For PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this is an opportunity to pile the pressure on Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose government he is seeking to portray as corrupt – because of a judicial investigation into his wife, Begoña Gómez – and in hock to Catalan nationalists.

Aside from being annoying, this avalanche of shrieking children prompted by TikTok’s misleading description of the bill reinforced proponents’ arguments that a widely used brain-melting app shouldn’t be in hock to a foreign adversary.

Britain’s Conservative government has come under criticism over the past few months after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watered down some of Britain’s environmental commitments and said he was “not in hock to ideological zealots.”

The group said in a post on X, formerly Twitter: "Wealth taxes are hugely popular. This is a Labour Leadership in hock to corporate interests."