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Rishi Sunak defends action over cost of living in 2021 Autumn Budget

Telegraph, 28 Oct 2021
Chancellor Rishi Sunak defended the government's action over the squeeze in the cost of living wage after the 2021 Autumn Budget.

Mr Sunak announced beer duty cuts and business rates relief to help firms hit by the Covid pandemic, while tweaking Universal Credit, increasing the minimum wage and scrapping a fuel duty rise to help people with the cost of living crunch.

Read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/28/boris-johnson-tory-autumn-budget-spending-france-fishing-inflation/

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