Over 100,000 Adults in Cambridgeshire ‘Rationing heating or electricity to keep Over one 100,000 Adults in Cambridgeshire ‘Rationing heating or electricity to keep up with debt payments’ – new analysis

One year on from the Tories’ disastrous mini-budget, new analysis from SE Cambridgeshire Labour – building on a StepChange survey for BBC Money Box – reveals a staggering 109,331 adults in Cambridgeshire are forced to cut back on essentials like heating and electricity to keep up with debt repayments. Over 180,000 are in financial difficulty, and some 68,000 have changed their diet to less healthy options to save cash.

The data comes on the first anniversary of Liz Truss disastrous premiership – and as her successor and former Cabinet colleague Rishi Sunak resists call led by Labour to ensure none of her team are rewarded with Peerages and honours for the enormous damage they did to working people.

This is the result of the Conservatives’ cost of living crisis. After the 13 years of failed Tory rule people in Cambridgeshire are worse off than they have been in years. Last year the Conservatives crashed the economy – and the rest of us are still paying the price.

One in five are now forced to ration essentials to pay the bills – a third say they are in financial difficulty, and one in eight can’t afford to eat as healthily as they would like. It is time for a change. This is the reality of what the Tories have done to our community. Low growth, stagnant wages, failing public services, and ever rising taxes.

But Labour has a plan for areas like Cambridgeshire. We would get the British economy moving again – we will make it a central mission of the next government to deliver the highest sustained growth in the G7, we will provide stability not the chaos of recent years, and through our Green Prosperity Plan we will help create good new jobs in places like Cambridgeshire.