Thread by @StopTheSqueeze

🧵We need a real plan for an affordable Britain. Here’s how the Chancellor can use his #AutumnStatement to #StopTheSqueeze by:

💡 Guaranteeing affordable energy
💷 Boosting incomes
⚖️ Raising taxes on wealth

The Chancellor is set to raise the energy price cap to as much as £3,100 this morning. And with the Energy Price Guarantee ending in April, energy bills will become even less affordable for millions.

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

But the Chancellor has an option to guarantee affordable energy. Not just for now, but for the long term.

He can do this by:

✅Reforming our broken energy market
✅Ending profiteering
✅Driving a rapid acceleration of investment in cleaner technologies

Most of us haven’t had a proper pay rise for a decade and our budgets are being squeezed like never before.

Incomes must enable people to afford the cost of living not just now, but in the future.

The Government must:

✅Deliver an immediate increase in the minimum wage
✅Link future changes to the cost of living
✅Redesign our social security system to ensure it delivers a Living Income for all

The Chancellor is set to introduce a range of tax rises in this morning's #AutumnStatement.

But this must be done in a way so that those who earn the most, and own the most, pay their proper share.

The current tax system disproportionately taxes income from work whilst people who are already wealthy from investments, rent and inheritances are taxed relatively lightly.

Voters from across the political spectrum back higher taxes on wealth according to @OpiniumResearch: