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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Gwyn Topham

Unions urge Rachel Reeves to deliver ‘living standards budget’

The TUC General Secretary, Paul Nowak
The TUC general secretary, Paul Nowak, said that households up and down the country were ‘still suffering a painful Tory pay hangover’. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Unions have urged the chancellor to keep focused on raising living standards, targeting child poverty and upping the national minimum wage, in the face of renewed calls from business to change course on employment rights.

The TUC said that Rachel Reeves must deliver “a living standards budget” on Wednesday to ease the pressure on working households whose incomes have remained stagnant in more than a decade.

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