Nicola Sturgeon has challenged Boris Johnson to “stop talking” and instead start taking action on the cost of living crisis.
The First Minister slammed yesterday's Queen's Speech, which sets out the UK Government's priorities for the year ahead, and claimed it had come up short on helping people struggling with mounting bills.
Sturgeon said today that steps taken so far by the UK Government to assist households “fall way short of what is needed”.
She added: "There is an urgency here. People are struggling right now to feed their children, to heat their homes, and we know it’s going to get worse."
Johnson has come under fire over a lack of short-term measures in the Queen’s Speech to help people facing soaring costs.
In response, he warned the UK Government cannot "completely shield" people from the rising cost of living.
Sturgeon suggested actions such as removing VAT from energy bills, increasing social security benefits and offering direct support to low-income households could be taken by the UK Government.
She added: “We’ve seen other governments across Europe take much more action, and of course at the start of the pandemic, we saw a scale of response that was necessary to help people at that point.
“That’s the scale of response that we need to see from Boris Johnson and (Chancellor) Rishi Sunak now.
“Stop talking about it, stop letting us hear the words about it, and let us see the action.”
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