April will bring cost increases set to hit household bills and businesses, even as Sir Keir Starmer touts Government measures “bearing down on the cost of living”.
The Prime Minister pointed to the reduction of energy bills by £117 a year for the average household, a rise in the national minimum wage to £10.85 and in the national living wage to £12.71, the start of the £1 billion crisis and resilience fund helping vulnerable households with soaring heating oil prices, and a freeze on prescription prices.
