‘Energy or rent?’ Britons expect rising hardship after Sunak’s spring statement

Susan Lee, at home near Bath, Somerset, had ‘a flicker of hope something would be announced but there’s absolutely nothing’. Photograph: Sam Frost/The Guardian

‘The fuel duty cut is welcome’

“The fuel duty cut is welcome but there’s not really anything else,” said 61-year-old Susan Lee, from Bath, who retired early on medical grounds. “I wasn’t asking for anything extra, just for benefits to have parity with inflation, but we haven’t even got that.”