Rising bills, soaring mortgages and plummeting real wages are “pushing more and more families to the brink”, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has warned, as she challenged the Deputy Prime Minister over the Government’s response to the cost-of-living crisis.
Oliver Dowden countered that Labour “seem very keen on hugging that magic money tree” as the pair clashed in the Commons over the Conservatives’ economic record, adding that “balancing the books means more than working out how many millions to take from her union paymasters”.
