Govt has 'key message' on cost-of-living crisis

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Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Lucy Rigby, says the government’s “key message” concerning the country’s cost-of-living crisis is that they “get it”. It comes as the chancellor is set to give details of policies to tackle the cost-of-living squeeze triggered by Donald Trump’s war on Iran. Report by Patelr. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The key message, though, is that we get it, that family budgets are squeezed at the moment.

00:05We've taken plenty of action already to try and address the cost of living.

00:08And this stuff today with free unlimited bus travel for children in England,

00:12helping families with the cost of the weekly shop,

00:15on the back of what the Prime Minister was talking about yesterday on fuel duty,

00:18helping millions of motorists with the cost of petrol.

00:21This is all designed to help with the cost of living,

00:25because, as I said, we recognise that family budgets are stretched at the moment.

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