Labour leader Keir Starmer is on the money in calling for an emergency Budget to ease the cost of living crisis.
Soaring fuel bills and surging food prices, inflation hitting a 30-year high and households hurting from the worst squeeze in living standards since the 1950s require a Government on the side of the people.
Instead, the Conservatives are raising overall taxes to rates last endured shortly after the end of the Second World War.
