Archive for month: May, 2022

With eye-watering price increases and massive tax hikes, many people in Mansfield and Ashfield are struggling to make ends meet. We’re suffering from the biggest drop in living standards on record.

Rishi Sunak has broken manifesto promise after promise. He has introduced 15 tax rises on families and businesses over the last two years. While Sunak is telling us to tighten our belts, he’s wasting more of our money than any other Chancellor – ever. £10 billion wasted on unusable PPE, over £4.3 billion written off due to Covid fraud and a £4 billion tax cut handed out to big banks.

While energy bills are rising, oil and gas producers are making huge, unexpected profits. Liberal Democrats would introduce a windfall tax on the oil and gas companies’ massive profits.

We’d use proceeds of the windfall tax to increase the Warm Home Discount, double the Winter Fuel Allowance and roll out an emergency home insulation programme. We would also support small businesses and help energy-intensive industries to decarbonise.

Liberal Democrats are fighting for the fair deal that Britain deserves.