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face into Christmas, a time when spirits are high but so too are the costs, families continue to struggle with the cost-of-living crisis that is a source of increasing hardship. Too many children face a Christmas of homelessness and worry whether Santa will be able … people get the healthcare and treatment they need, and shaped by the resolve to deliver affordable childcare for families, to meet the cost-of-living crisis head on, to ensure that those on average incomes never again pay USC, to ensure that our young people can build

stable Government with a fresh focus on deliveries that matter to them. We all heard across this House about the cost-of-living crisis remaining real in the lives of many and that much needs to be done to support small businesses at a time when the protection

Government's waste of public moneys and the many crises we face as a nation, such as housing, health and the cost of living among others, all cemented in legacies created by previous Governments' policies. She is a leader who unites people and she is the leader

policies together to ensure a better life for everyone in this country. One of the biggest issues on the doors was the cost-of-living crisis. Once-off payments are not enough for struggling families who find it impossible to pay for childcare, heat homes and put food

then they offer the same worn-out excuses when challenged. All the while, the crises in housing and health and the cost of living have deepened. Spin, soundbites, broken promises and excuses are not the currency of good government. Government is rightly judged on action, delivery and results

those in need so fast that its volunteers were left stunned. Those are the fruits of unchecked deprivation and an embedded cost-of-living crisis that leaves working households in real distress. More than that, it reflects the out-of-touch culture of entitlement that defines the centuries

protect workers' rights to organise, to bargain collectively and to join a trade union. We put forward a plan to address the cost-of-living crisis, to use the machinery of the State to drive down energy and insurance prices and remove what are effectively taxes