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‘Talking shops won’t tackle profiteering crisis’

TINKERING at the edges of the cost-of-living crisis with Tory “talking shops” is not enough to make a difference, Unite has said.

The union’s warning came ahead of today’s meeting between Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, the Competition and Markets Authority and energy, water and communications watchdogs. 

Mr Hunt will “press them on whether there is a profiteering problem and what they are doing about it,” a Treasury source claimed. 

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