Responding to the spring forecast, the Green Party has called on the Government to scrap its failing fiscal rules, and tackle the cost of living by ending the household benefit cap, bringing water into public ownership, and introducing rent controls.

Dr Ellie Chowns MP said:

“Hannah Spencer’s decisive by-election victory last week shows it is action to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that voters desperately want to see. But the truth is the Labour Party has failed to properly get to grips with this crisis and today was no different.

“When bills are still sky-high, rents are extortionate, and millions of children remain in poverty, it is incredibly disappointing that this government continues to tie itself in knots with its self-imposed fiscal rules, which even the IFS are now calling dysfunctional.

“The Green Party is laser-focused on making our country affordable again, because we knows it is inequality, not immigration, that is to blame for the state we are in. That is why we are again calling on the government to scrap their failing fiscal rules and double down on tackling the cost-of-living crisis, starting with scrapping the household benefit cap, bringing water into public ownership, and introducing rent controls.”