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UK cost of living crisis

September 2024

  • Emma Beddington

    Parents are anxious, lonely, overwhelmingly stressed – and their crisis affects everyone

    Emma Beddington
  • A survey by child poverty charity Buttle UK found half of families in poverty were having to sleep on the floor.

    Poorest families in UK lack beds and are sleeping on floors, charity warns

  • Members of the London Renters Union protest outside the offices of Grainger plc, a UK private landlord company with over 10,000 properties

    Bill to ban landlords in England from rental bidding wars

  • John Swinney delivers a statement at Holyrood: he has a hand raised and looks animated as one woman claps in the background and another looks down at her notes

    Scottish opposition pushes Swinney on free school meal and flat-rate rail fare cuts

  • Why stop at breakfast? We paediatricians think all of England’s primary pupils should have lunch for free

    Steve Turner

  • Back-to-school shopping drives up grocery spending in Great Britain

  • Barratt profits plunge 75% as number of houses built slumps

  • Pension pot amount needed for ‘basic’ retirement rises 60% in three years

  • National Trust reveals rise in visitor numbers but drop in members

August 2024

  • A cropped shot of teenagers, wearing either uniform trousers or skirts, leaning against lockers, one holding a bottle of water, one a mobile phone and one a binder

    Branded UK school uniforms cost more than double high-street prices, analysis reveals

  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    If Starmer and Reeves think they have a foolproof strategy – wait until winter comes

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Students in their graduation gowns

    ‘Like throwing myself at a wall’: UK graduates struggle in ‘insane’ job market

  • Wind turbines and electricity pylons dominate the landscape at Ince Marshes in Runcorn, Cheshire

    Ministers urged to step in to save UK firms struggling with high energy costs

  • UK shop prices fall year on year for first time since cost of living crisis began

  • UK has record 991,000 self-employed workers aged 60 or over

  • Martin Lewis calls for rethink of plan to limit winter fuel payments

  • Average annual energy bill to rise by 10% to £1,717 in Great Britain from October

  • Half a million children ‘face holiday hunger’ if £1bn crisis fund is ditched

  • Half-year earnings rise 12.5% at UK’s largest pawnbroker H&T

  • Energy bills could rise to average of £1,714 a year in Great Britain from October

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