The Chancellor cannot sit on the fence today. He can either help families or make life that bit harder.
Parents being plunged deeper into debt have to pick between eating and heating in this crisis created by the callous Conservatives.
Rishi Sunak’s huge planned tax rises would wipe out the few pennies he might give back by tinkering with fuel duty and National Insurance thresholds.
Labour would suspend or cancel taxes and grab North Sea windfalls. Not the Tories, they side with giant corporations who are clocking up massive profits.
Every family we highlight today in the Daily Mirror deserves help. Boris Johnson and his do-little Ministers will rightly be condemned as part of the problem rather than a solution.
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Some world events are outside the control of a UK Government. Levels of tax and public spending within Britain are not among them. Whose side are the Tories on? Not workers.
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Jamaica is gripped by a peaceful if noisy revolution to overthrow colonial rule so the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge should brace themselves for a rough visit.
Barbados last year ditched the Queen as head of state and Jamaica is poised to be next.
Protests are not essentially against William and Kate as individuals but a constitutional subordination dating from when British troops conquered the lands and settlers exploited those territories.
The Duke and Duchess are great advocates for Britain yet even they cannot turn back the tide of history.
