Cost of Living

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:15 pm on 24 May 2022.

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Photo of Carolyn Thomas Carolyn Thomas Labour 2:15, 24 May 2022

Thank you, First Minister. Households in north Wales are facing an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis through no fault of their own. Day-to-day costs are going up as inflation rises. With inflation at its highest level since March 1982, when it was 9.1 per cent, the solutions offered by Conservative MPs have been insulting. We've been told to get better jobs, we've seen a Tory MP say that people can't cook or budget properly, and we've got a Prime Minister whose response to a pensioner riding the bus to keep warm, all day long, because she can't afford to switch on her heating, was to remind us that he introduced the 24-hour freedom bus pass. I don't believe that they live in the real world, or that they ever have done. Does the First Minister agree with me that it's time for the Tories in Westminster to take this crisis seriously and offer protection to all those that are suffering?