Martin Lewis condemns minister’s ‘patronising’ advice to buy value food brands amid cost-of-living crisis
“But the idea that that is some panacea for the working poor and the non-working poor in this country who don't have enough income, don't know that, that's what comes across as patronising and difficult.”shop prices were up 2.7 per cent on last yearThe squeeze on household finances is expected to get worse, with the CPI measure of inflation expected to hit a 40-year high of 8.7 per cent in the final three months of the year, according to Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts.
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