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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin

Keir Starmer to tell cabinet to slash cost of living in new year message

Keir Starmer will warn his cabinet to slash the cost of living when they meet for the first time this year, after new figures suggested the poor were getting poorer under Labour.

With his beleaguered government still trailing Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the polls, and expected to suffer heavy losses in May’s local, Scottish and Welsh elections, the prime minister will tell ministers to find ways to cut household bills.

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