Browsing: cost of living

The Metro says Boris Johnson has been slammed as ‘tone deaf’ for gloating about introducing free bus passes for pensioners in response to a question about the cost of living crisis.

The Independent says Party leaders are due to visit key battlegrounds today on the last day of political campaigning before voters go to the polls for the local elections on Thursday.

The Guardian says Boris Johnson’s fumbled defence of the government’s record on the cost of living has exasperated Conservative MPs and sharpened fears about the party’s performance in Thursday’s local elections.

The Metro says almost two thirds of people are cutting their spending to try and offset the rise in the cost of living.

The Sun says CABINET ministers have been ordered to draw up emergency plans to slash the price of food, oil ­products, clothes and phones to ease Britain’s cost-of-living crisis.

The Guardian says cabinet ministers have been ordered to come up with new “non-fiscal” ways to combat the cost of living.

Sky News says the price of more than a million train tickets will be cut by up to half in April and May as the government seeks to ease cost of living pressures.

The Metro says Brits face a further squeeze on their household incomes after the rate of inflation rose to another 30-year high.

The Guardian says households in Britain have come under renewed pressure from the soaring cost of living after the official inflation rate reached 7% last month amid a record increase in petrol and diesel prices.

The Independent says retail sales growth slowed significantly last month as consumer confidence “continued to sink” amid the cost of living crisis, new research has revealed.