Mel Stride criticises billionaire for sharing fake story about sending people to Falklands and his claim that the UK was set for civil warSarah Olney, Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park and the party’s treasury spokesperson, has said the inflation figures are “a stark reminder that the cost of living crisis is not over.”Speaking on LBC news, she said:A lot of this rise is being driven still by energy prices, and people are still seeing the impact of those increased prices in their monthly bills and at the checkout when they pay for their food shop.And so many people are suffering from big increases in their mortgages as a result of the interest rate rises we saw off the back of the Liz Truss disastrous mini-budget.We need to invest in our farmers to bring down food prices. We need to save families money by expanding free school meals to all children in poverty.We want to see a one year freeze to rail fares, because we know that the inflation announcement today is going to feed through to rail fare increases in January, and that’s something that will concern a lot of people already paying eye-watering amounts to travel on the trains. Continue reading…
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Author : Martin Belam
Publish date : 2024-08-14 08:00:09
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