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– on Friday to say he had spoken to someone in his constituency who was not eligible for the government’s childcare offer, because one parent is earning over £100,000.Hunt added in his post: “That is an issue I would really like to sort out after the next election as I am aware that it is not a huge salary in our area if you have a mortgage to pay.
He said house prices in his constituency of South West Surrey are averaging around £670,000 – so, between mortgage costs and childcare, he thinks his constituent “is right”.: “The overwhelming majority of working people in this country would dream of earning that, yet they are all being made to pay the price of 14 years of Tory failure.”
Phillips also skewered Hunt over the government’s repeated claims that their plan to improve the cost of living in the UK right now is working.nowhere near target, you’re nowhere near building the number of homes that would make an impact on property prices, council taxes are rising as high as councils get legally get away with, hospital waiting lists near the highest ever, and you’ve had to cancel your big infrastructure project – HS2 – or most of it.
But Phillips said: “I don’t want to blame you personally, chancellor, but can we agree over the period of this parliament, a conservative led government has presided over a fall in our living standards - that is very, very unusual.”'He's Gaslighting Them': Pollster Says An Improving Economy Could Be Bad News For Rishi SunakHuffPost UK Daily Brief
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