Cathy Jamieson MP, Labour’s shadow Treasury Minister, responding to today’s inflation figures, said:

“This small fall in the inflation rate is welcome, but with prices still rising much faster than wages the cost-of-living crisis continues. Under David Cameron working people are now on average £1600 a year worse off.

“Labour’s plan will tackle the cost-of-living crisis and earn our way to higher living standards for the many and not just a few.

“We will freeze energy bills until 2017, make work pay by expanding free childcare for working parents and get at least 200,000 homes built a year by 2020. We also want to introduce a lower 10p starting rate of tax to help 24 million people on middle and lower incomes.

“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.”