New analysis from Northumberland Labour reveals families in Northumberland have seen average weekly spending on items measured in the consumer price index rise year on year leaving the average household seeing costs rise £110 a week or £5,720 a year. If we take this across the whole of Northumberland that is £838,552 a year worse off since the last election.
Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Member for Inequalities and Voluntary Sector Caroline Ball said: “Families in Northumberland can’t afford five more years of a Conservative Government. The Tories have delivered a decade of failure, and crashed the British economy thanks to their reckless gamble with the nation’s finances. Fuel poverty, food poverty, people working harder for less is simply wrong and more and more efficiencies or what the rest of us call cuts to services expected due to Tory Austerity’.
“Labour has a plan to get Britain building again. We willkickstart growth in all parts of the Country making working people better off putting more pounds in working peoples’ pockets. Meaning real stability and an end to the madness of recent years, building 1.5million new homes, backing British business, investing in skillsand making work pay for all.
“The Labour Party has a plan to get Britain’s future back – and I believe together we can change Britain for the better.
A General Election really can’t come soon enough.”
Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, responding to the latest inflation figures from the Office for National Statistics, said:
“After fourteen years of economic failure working people are worse off. Prices are still rising in the shops, with the average households’ costs up £110 a week compared to before the last election.
“Inflation is still higher than the Bank of England’s target and millions of families are struggling with the cost of living.
“The Conservatives cannot fix the economy because they are the reason it is broken. It’s time for change. Only Labour has a long-term plan to get Britain’s future back by delivering more jobs, more investment and cheaper bills.”
