Raab under pressure over lack of action on cost of living crisis

Dominic Raab: ‘People expect us to test our policies very carefully, to thrash them through.’ Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

Dominic Raab has come under pressure over the UK government’s failure to come up with policies to tackle the cost of living, while not ruling out higher defence spending.

The deputy prime minister was on Wednesday questioned on the government’s lack of big ideas to deal with the cost of living crisis and high inflation, after a cabinet brainstorming session came up with a string of minor policy tweaks.