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As crisis looms, where are Britain’s leaders?

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Tax Carts Aren't Helping Pensioners

Energy bills are going up by about a hundred and 50 pounds a month for the average household. Tax carts obviously don't help people who don't pay tax. You have to look after children. We have more children living in poverty in this country than we have pensioners living in poverty, which is not generally a part of the conversation that the conservative party particularly likes to focus on. I think its a third of the state pension. Now theyt they're producted to take over yet completely. So ye ithink they will to do something. They reassure us we have foreseeing already in the past week or so, the media coverage and the public pressure on the government to do more

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