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Average food bill rocketed by £1,000 since last election as Tory chaos blasted
New analysis found households spent an average of £60 a week on food and non-alcoholic drinks in 2019-20, but this has risen to £79 since then amid the cost of living crisis
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Labour warns Rishi Sunak 'can't stop telling porkies' in savage advert
A Labour poster asks what else Rishi Sunak is lying about after the Prime Minister was criticised for making bogus tax claims during the ITV General Election debate
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Girl, 7, asked mum heartbreaking question after she was shot outside church
In total, four women and two children were injured after gunmen fired a sawn-off shotgun at a crowd of people outside St Alyosius Church in Euston, north London
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Grieving relative of Brit Gaza hero 'disappointed' Netanyahu hasn't apologised
James Kirby's cousin expressed his “disappointment” in the response from Israeli Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu in failing to apologise for the Gaza atrocity
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Family finances doing much worse under Tories than when Labour was in power
Ahead of the Budget, figures show that household incomes have risen significantly slower under the Conservatives than when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were in No10
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Stats watchdog slaps down Tory minister Laura Trott for 'misleading' tax claims
The UK Statistics Authority's Sir Robert Chote said the public could have been 'misled or at least confused' by Treasury Minister Laura Trott's claims about taxes falling
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Senior Treasury minister appears to stumble over questions on the rising debt
Laura Trott said she had "different figures" when she was presented with the latest official projections from the fiscal watchdog, which suggest an increase over the next five years
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Around 1.6million low-paid workers set to bear brunt of Tory stealth taxes
Labour's analysis says by 2024-2025 a family with two adults working full time on the National Living Wage will pay £1,320 more a year due to Tory stealth taxes
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Fury as Tories wasted £100bn of taxpayers' cash in 4 years since 2019 election
An average of £25billion was wasted by the Tory Government every year since the 2019 election – almost all when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor or Prime Minister, claim campaigners
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'Obscene' move to lift cap on bankers' bonuses amid cost of living crisis
Bankers were paid more than £13billion in bonuses in 2008, on the eve of the financial crisis, and the bid to further enrich the UK’s bankers was announced by Kwasi Kwarteng
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Liz Truss demands tax cuts a year after she crashed economy with same ideas
The unrepentant ex-Prime Minister will gather her allies for a "growth" rally at Conservative party conference, where she will demand cuts to corporation tax for big businesses
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Royal Mail accused of keeping tabs on posties - flagging when they stand still
A Commons hearing was told about digital devices that workers carry that can monitor their movements, with company boss Simon Thompson saying technology called Outdoor Actuals had been agreed with unions