"The actions we have taken to sanction Putin's regime are not cost-free for us at home" - Rishi Sunak.
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Rishi Sunak states that "disruptions to global supply chains" and the "economic response to Putin's aggression" have led to increases in projected inflation. - #SpringStatement
Read an analysis of the war's impact on the cost of living crisis here:
newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…
"Fuel duty will be cut not by one, not even by two but by five pence per litre"
Rishi Sunak announces cuts to fuel duty in his #SpringStatement
"I want to do more to help our most vulnerable households with rising costs".
Rishi Sunak states that vulnerable households need "targeted support" in the #SpringStatement2022
Read more: newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…
"But thanks to Brexit we are no longer constrained by EU law" - #SpringStatement2022
Could Rishi Sunak stop the living standards squeeze if he wanted to?
Read here: newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…
"Only the conservatives can be trusted with taxpayer money"- #SpringStatement2022
Rishi Sunak commits to the "largest single personal tax cut in a decade" #SpringStatement
Read why Sunak "prefers a quick fix" by @willydunn here: newstatesman.com/business/econo…
Rishi Sunak promises to cut the basic rate of income tax for the first time "in 16 years" - #SpringStatement
Read more here: newstatesman.com/business/econo…
"My tax plan delivers the biggest net cut to personal taxes in over a quarter of a century"
Rishi Sunak triumphantly ends his #SpringStatement.
Read here: newstatesman.com/business/econo…
"The conservatives have been funding crime instead of fighting it" - Rachel Reeves
@willydunn argues that the Chancellor’s #SpringStatement confirms the government’s preference for short-term measures that can be easily taken away.
Read here: newstatesman.com/business/econo…
"People can no longer afford the Conservatives"
@RachelReevesMP targets the Government's response to the cost of living crisis in response to the #SpringStatement.
Read more on this crisis here: newstatesman.com/economy/2022/0…
"Because this Government's failure to get the economy growing, it's this Chancellor that has to put up taxes on family and businesses a staggering 15 times" - #SpringStatement
Read more here: newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…
"He's not Nigel Lawson... he's Ted Heath with an Instagram account"
@RachelReevesMP pokes fun at Sunak's political inspirations.
Read more on the #SpringStatement here: newstatesman.com/business/econo…
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