
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.