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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Emergency cost-of-living Cobra meeting amid soaring energy prices and stock market crash threat over Iran war

An emergency meeting to discuss a worsening cost-of-living crisis caused by the Iran war will examine “every lever available” to Government, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

The Prime Minister has called a summit of the Cobra committee to respond to soaring energy prices and unstable financial markets as a result of the conflict.

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