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Sunak told to announce emergency budget to tackle the spiralling cost-of-living crisis
TUC brands the Tory Chancellor's Spring Statement ‘woefully inadequate’ and warns millions of families are at ‘breaking point’
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RISHI SUNAK must immediately announce an emergency budget to tackle the spiralling cost-of-living crisis, the TUC said yesterday.

The union body slammed the measures announced by the Tory Chancellor in his Spring Statement last week as “woefully inadequate” with millions of families at “breaking point.”

The call comes as today’s energy price cap rise hits households nationwide with cripplingly high bills.

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