All news on the topic: Living standards

Martin Lewis was joined by a host of experts on the latest episode of the Not The Martin Lewis Podcast, where he warned Brits who are thinking of gifting money to their grandchildren

As the Conservative Party claim falling inflation in their failing General Election campaign, a reminder that only months ago they were blaming external forces when rates were climbing up

Love Island star Sharon Gaffka is urging under-30s to register to vote before the June 18 deadline. Supporting the Give an X campaign, she highlights voting as a vital milestone for young Brits

The TUC said its study found that the number of people in insecure work has reached a record high of 4.1 million

The economy marked a slowdown from growth of 0.4% in March and was dragged down by weaker-than-usual retail sales over Easter and a fall in construction output

One Conservative former Minister screamed to me that Sunak is now a worse leader even than Johnson or Truss. It’s that bad

'Rishi Sunak screamed tetchiness, everything somebody else’s fault, opening with a grotesque lecture to a woman too poor to turn on her oven,' writes Kevin Maguire

Writing in the Mirror, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner says the minimum wage introduced by her party was a 'lifeline' for her when she worked in social care

The Triple Lock measure is the mechanism used to determine how much the State Pension will increase by every year and the latest inflation figure could have a big impact on payments next year

Labour leader Keir Starmer said the General Election was a vote between 'two different countries, two different futures' for Britain as he fired the gun on his party's campaign

Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a left-leaning think tank, revealed the UK is already a world-leading presence in making a third of the 143 products needed in technologies to deliver net zero

Labour’s deputy leader has repeatedly denied avoiding capital gains tax when she sold her former council house. This has not stopped the Conservatives and their allies in the right-wing press from harrying and smearing her

Britain’s richest leader in modern history is tone-deaf, as is his multi-millionaire Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. People count their pennies and know they’re squeezed under the Tories

There was once something known as the dignity of labour – but sadly those days are long gone now

Labour's 'New Deal for Working People' includes banning zero-hours contracts, ending fire and rehire and boosting sick pay - triggering concern among business leaders who fear it will mean higher costs

Archived copies of Andy Street’s website show he removed all reference to the Conservative Party after November 2023, as the Tory brand continued to tank under Rishi Sunak’s leadership.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that from April 8, everyone on Universal Credit will be handed a cash boost to their benefits in the new tax year

The typical cost of new tenancies has increased by 18% since January 2022, with private renting no longer being the preserve of people in their 20s

Dad buys his dying teenage son his $20k dream car because he doesn't have long enough to save for it himself due to devastating rare cancer diagnosis

'Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is gambling voters will swallow the sugar-rush of tax cuts and ignore the bitter taste of further public spending cuts,' the Mirror's Jason Beattie writes

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warns that "zombie" Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has put forward a "deeply cynical" budget while public services are on their knees

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

Labour’s Angela Rayner will pledge to give communities the power to make decisions on skills training, housing and planning as she speaks at the Convention of the North

A 67-year-old pensioner told The Mirror how he was “scared” about the future and had been forced to take a job as a taxi driver after he was surviving on just £6 a month

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