Spring Statement: Chancellor adding to pain of families

Responding to the Chancellor's Spring Statement, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Christine Jardine MP said: “Families were looking to the Chancellor to offer them hope, instead he is adding to their pain by refusing to scrap his unfair tax rises.  “People seeing the biggest plunge in living standards in fifty years will see through the Chancellor’s spin.   “Rishi Sunak has failed to introduce a windfall tax on the super profits of oil and gas producers, which could have raised billions to help people with their energy bills. And he has refused to bring in an emergency cut to VAT, as Liberal Democrats have called for, which would put £600 back into the pockets of the average family.”