We need a breathing space budget: a Budget that slashes the cost of essential energy, fuel duty and public transport costs, and the high costs hammering hospitality businesses on our high streets.

We need a breathing space budget: a Budget that slashes the cost of essential energy, fuel duty and public transport costs, and the high costs hammering hospitality businesses on our high streets.

With the budget next week, the Chancellor needs to give British people the breathing space to tackle the cost of living.

People across the country are struggling with everyday expenses, and we need urgent action to slash energy bills, cut travel costs, and introduce a VAT cut to high streets.

Three million households are in debt on their energy bills. I’ve challenged the Prime Minister to be more ambitious on cutting energy bills by adopting our @LibDems proposal for making essential energy cheaper.

🧵 Trump’s war - which was cheered on by the Conservatives and Reform - continues to drive up everyday costs, leaving households having to tighten their belts once again.

At next week's Budget the Labour government must make good on their promise to give people breathing space.

Our £14 billion emergency package, funded by taxes on unearned profits of big banks and energy operator monopolies, would cut energy, transport, and hospitality costs, putting money back in people's pockets to help with living costs and little extras.

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What do we Lib Dems want to see in next week's Budget? Cuts to energy, travel and hospitality costs - giving households the breathing space they need.

🧵 Our @LibDems plans would put £350 back in your pocket.

The government should deliver a breathing space Budget next week, to slash your energy bills, petrol and public transport prices, and costs for struggling high street hospitality businesses over the next year and a half.

@LibDems All paid for through a windfall tax on the unearned profits of the big banks, a clawback of support to the energy network monopolies, and extra Treasury receipts from Trumpflation.

@LibDems The result? We would tackle the cost-of-living crisis, save the average household £350, give our struggling high streets a lifeline and give everyone the breathing space they need.

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Watch my speech: youtube.com/live/p_7oRJqoZ…

ITV’s undercover report exposing racist and misogynistic comments by Reform UK councillors will be aired in full tonight. According to Reform sources it’s just a “few bad apples” but we’ve been here before….

🧵 Growth of just 0.1% is nothing to celebrate. The economy is stuck in first gear and barely crawling forward, while families are still struggling to make ends meet.

This doom loop of low growth is fuelling the cost of living crisis.

The Chancellor must be bold at the Budget and adopt our @LibDems plan to Get Britain Growing Again.

This means pulling the biggest growth lever available, a new growth and defence partnership with Europe, and tearing down the barriers holding British business back.

@LibDems If we can grow the size of the pie, then we can end the cost of living crisis.

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Reform UK councillors have been caught red-handed making racist, violent and deeply nasty comments about people of colour, women and even the King. Here’s how I responded to the @itvnews undercover investigation.

This is chilling. I feel for anyone watching this tonight who is frightened to see such racism and hatred festering in their community.

It's the very worst of what we’re seeing in Trump’s America. We can’t let it become Farage’s Britain.

Is this the understatement of the year from Nigel Farage?

“Marginally harder?” Tell that to the tens of thousands of businesses who have been crippled by Brexit red tape, whilst grifter Nigel Farage has pocketed millions as a reward

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Corridor care has hit a record high, and winter hasn't even started yet.

In September, an average of more than 3,300 patients a day were treated in A&E corridors or on wards without a proper bed space.

That's almost 100,000 times in a single month. 🧵