Catherine McKinnell MP, Labour’s Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury, responding to today’s inflation figures, said:
“This fall in the inflation rate is welcome, but with prices still rising much faster than wages the cost-of-living crisis under David Cameron continues. And with inflation-busting hikes in energy prices in the pipeline families and pensioners will carry on feeling the squeeze.
"Labour will act to help people struggling with the rising cost of living by freezing energy bills until 2017 and make work pay by expanding free childcare for working parents. And to help 24 million people on middle and low incomes we also want to introduce a lower 10p starting rate of tax.
"By opposing all these measures and giving a huge tax cut to people earning over £150,000, David Cameron has shown he’s out of touch and only stands up for a privileged few.”
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