The cost of living has undoubtedly risen throughout 2022 and 2023, making everybody tighten their purse strings. Food and energy costs have been the most noticeable changes, and everybody who does a weekly food shop will have noticed the price of almost everything going up - from little luxuries through to the basics.
As the spring warmth begins to finally creep in, citizens will no longer have to choose between heating and eating, but that doesn't make things any easier as wages stay the same, and rents and mortgages increase. More than a third of British adults paying rent or a mortgage say that they are struggling to afford them, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
