Reeves reveals plan to protect public from unfair Iran war price hikes
A crackdown on companies profiteering from the Iran war at the expense of millions of Brits is among cost-of-living plans announced by Rachel Reeves today.
The Chancellor vowed that the Government would guard against unfair price rises amid fears over surging oil and fuel costs sparked by Donald Trump’s conflict in the Middle East.
She told MPs on Tuesday that she was investigating cuts to tariffs on food in a bid to keep prices low and would be meeting with supermarket and banking bosses this week to “discuss how they can further support their customers”.
The Government will “monitor the cost of household essentials for both price rises and disruption” and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will have the power to "crack down on price gouging", the Chancellor said.
By gum this is poor stuff, as if senior politicians still hope certain words and phrases might trigger something more than indifference. Twaddle words such as protect, unfair, crackdown, support, monitor, gouging and so on.
Among voters, only blockheads are likely to pay attention and even Labour doesn't seem to have enough of them to stave off electoral disaster.
Presumably it's the best they can do, but where do they go from such a low and hopelessly unconvincing baseline? Nowhere we'll enjoy probably.
1 comment:
I still find it hard to believe that people voted for her, TTK and the rest of those clowns. Knowing that he would be PM.
Feckin unbelievable!
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