FAMILES need urgent help with a ‘cost of living’ crisis, says Hyndburn MP Graham Jones.
He has called for action on affordable homes, and rising energy bills, claiming his constituents in Hyndburn were being left to struggle.
He said: “Thousands of hard-working families are under enormous pressure from rising prices, a flatlining economy and sky-high utility bills, with many of them struggling to make ends meet.
“Since the Government came to power in 2010, energy bills have soared by over £300, rail tickets for commuters have gone up by as much as 9.2per cent, and housebuilding is now at the lowest since the 1920s.
“But in a debate on the Queen’s Speech in the House of Commons, Labour MPs voted to demand the Government change course and help hard-pressed families struggling with the rising cost of living. People in Hyndburn, who get up early, work hard and do the right thing, are feeling the squeeze like never before. It’s time the Government took real action to stop their living standards falling any further.”
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