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Chancellor John Healey promises the public some "breathing space" to alleviate cost-of-living pressures in the upcoming Budget but refuses to elaborate. Report by Kennedyl. 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 hard fact is that we can't remove the pressures.
00:03We can't remove the pressures that people feel on their cost of living or on cost of
00:08business.
00:09And people understand that, I think.
00:10They can see that these diesel prices are driven by conflict in the Middle East.
00:15They're driven also by Russia's war on Ukraine.
00:18So these are worldwide shocks, if you like, that have hit hard here at home.
00:22And this is about cushioning the pain?
00:24It's cushioning the pain.
00:24And so where we can, we will take action just to give people what I would call and
00:30the Prime Minister would call just a bit of breathing space from those pressures.

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