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Listen to our special pre-budget episode of the New Economics Podcast to find out more: linktr.ee/neweconomicspodcas…
The chancellor must use the budget to protect people from the rising cost of living.
Alex Chapman sets out what we want to see - including:
💡A National Energy Guarantee
🏡An emergency brake on rents
🚌A £1 bus fare cap and free bus travel for under 25s
Raising taxes on banks is the right thing to do! For too long governments have propped up the financial system, and since 2022 this has cost the taxpayer billions...
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
This means, instead of supporting families with the cost of living crisis or making inflation-busting investments in the future, the government is handing money over to the financial sector.
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This is welcome news for the chancellor, but these figures will be little for consolation for people who are still being squeezed by the cost of living crisis.
Surprise GDP growth as UK economy stronger than first thought trib.al/ibOIUK6
We still haven't recovered from the cost of living crisis + energy bills are set to rise this winter + there's the threat of rising interests.
People are going to be under even more pressure, with demand squeezed as a result.
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Thanks to our supporters, who showed up in huge numbers yesterday in Westminster demanding a cost of living budget!
OUT NOW: A special episode of the New Economics Podcast with Ayeisha Thomas-Smith and NEF deputy chief executive, Hannah Peaker, to set out what we want to see from the upcoming budget and why it must tackle the cost of living crisis.
ALT Text: A budget to end the cost of living crisis. New episode out now!
It's back! Tomorrow we're dropping a special pre-budget episode of the New Economics Podcast where Ayeisha Thomas-Smith will be chatting to Hannah Peaker about why now is the time for the chancellor to act on the cost of living crisis🔥
ALT Logo of the New Economics Podcast with text: A budget to end the cost of living crisis with Ayeisha Thomas-Smith and Hannah Peaker, deputy chief executive, New Economics Foundation.
It's only fair that income from wealth is taxed at the same rate as income from work.
It was disappointing to hear the chancellor rule this out from the upcoming budget.
@GeorgeBangham on @TimesRadio
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Very disappointing news here: rejecting the chance to raise £19.7bn from raising Capital Gains Tax to help fund badly-needed cost of living support for households would be a historic mistake at the Budget.
Healey rejects calls to equalise capital gains and income tax rates ft.trib.al/9CvrGGl
