Daily Mirror – For once, just do the right thing
Daily Mirror – For once, just do the right thing
For once just do the right thing, the Daily Mirror pleads with MPs, as they prepare to vote on whether to give struggling families £600.
Keir Starmer ’s party will table an amendment to the Queen’s Speech demanding the one-off levy to generate cash to help hard-up households.
It said the plan would mean up to £600 in “extra support” for the “squeezed middle”, pensioners and the lowest earners.
The parliamentary showdown comes less than two weeks after Shell reported its highest-ever quarterly profits.
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