To ask if you were Prime Minister for a year, how would you combat the cost of living?

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MzGG · 27/11/2025 21:53

To ask if you were Chancellor of the Exchequer, how would you combat the cost of living?

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LoyalMember · 27/11/2025 22:26

Pull the plug on all overseas aid and spend it on the needy here. Not one solitary pound should go abroad while our own people are sleeping rough and homeless.

peoplegetreadyforthetrain · 27/11/2025 22:25

Find a cost neutral way to build more social housing for working people on low incomes

Surely if it were that straightforward they’d have done it ages ago?!

IndigoIsMyFavouriteColour · 27/11/2025 22:24

I would stop sending money abroad, focus on tightening security on our borders, fixing our roads and funding the NHS

HeddaGarbled · 27/11/2025 22:22

Pray that Trump will stop being a dick, that Putin will pull out of Ukraine and that there won’t be any other wars, climate events or foreign actions that impact the global economy negatively. Otherwise, piddle about pretending anything I do makes more than a tiny bit of difference (Liz Truss excepted, of course).

Bushmillsbabe · 27/11/2025 22:11

Reduce taxes - if people can keep more of the money they earn its easier for them to deal with cost of living pressures. This may also attract big business back to UK contributing to economic growth, which will help stabilise the economic. There is a sweet spot where reduce taxes but total tax take is similar due to higher number of higher earners paying in, fewer unemployed etc

Find a cost neutral way to build more social housing for working people on low incomes. If less money going on rent then more money to pay the other bills

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