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Evening Standard Comment: Struggling Londoners need a cost of living plan from the Prime Minister

The cost of living crisis is affecting people across the UK but there is one part of the country conspicuous by its absence from the Government’s levelling up agenda — London.

Some 1.5 million British households are facing food and energy bills “greater than their disposable income”, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a think tank. In other words, they can’t afford both. The report goes on to point out that the highest incidence of this is in the capital.

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