Out-of-touch government has no plan to solve cost of living crisis, says UNISON   

The government is out of touch, has no understanding of the struggles ordinary families are facing and has run out of ideas to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Wednesday). In her keynote speech at the union’s annual conference in Brighton, she said: “The country is smack bang in the middle of the worst cost-of-living crisis in over 70 years. The poorer people are, the higher the price they’re paying. “Struggling families are forced to choose between eating or heating, and food banks are stretched to breaking point. Ministers should be hanging their heads in shame. “The government is so out of touch. Ministers don’t understand because they’re just not like everyone else.   “The cost-of-living crisis is down to political choices.  The government’s choosing not to increase taxes on the wealthiest. Ministers had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a windfall tax.   “The government stubbornly refuses to increase capital gains tax, choosing instead to hike national insurance, a tax on working people. But those who get their income from stocks and shares or buy-to-let properties pay nothing more. “Instead of making political choices to help the less well-off, the government’s happy to let those who unashamedly profiteered from the pandemic off the hook.    “If ministers were serious about giving public service workers a pay rise to help ease the financial pain of soaring inflation, it could...
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