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Could the squeeze on living standards bring down Boris?

24 September 2021

3:00 PM

24 September 2021

3:00 PM

There is about to be a two-phase onslaught on the living standards of those on low-to-middling incomes.

On 1 October the energy price cap, for dual fuel, rises from £1,150 to £1,277. This is a rise of 11 per cent, at a time when furlough is ending and just a few days before the £1,000 a year uplift to Universal Credit is removed (which presumably Boris Johnson will not be swanking about in his big speech to Tory conference).

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