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UK cost of living crisis

January 2026

  • Warrington town centre Warrington Old Fish Market

    Disposable income in 11 towns and cities has risen twice as fast as rest of UK

  • Houses of Parliament

    Expand credit unions to boost cheap credit to low-income people, Labour MPs urge Reeves

  • Keir Starmer on his feet in the Commons

    The U-turns keep coming – but Starmer’s allies insist they’re his best hope of revival

  • Keir Starmer seated with young Ikea workers wearing yellow sweatshirts.

    Starmer tells Labour MPs his foreign trips can help fix cost of living crisis

  • Lending to small businesses and low-income areas must expand, say Labour backbenchers

  • From energy prices to interest rates: the dates that could affect your finances in 2026

December 2025

  • Close-up of Keir Starmer at Chequers

    Keir Starmer to woo voters and MPs with new year plan to cut cost of living

  • Odeon's new VIP bed-style cinema seats

    VIP viewing: cinemas bet on luxury bars and beds to usher in a new film era

  • Eluned Morgan

    Welsh first minister vows to keep Labour ‘most successful democratic party on the planet’

  • Children in Bradford taking part in a community event organised by the Guardian charity appeal partner The Linking Network.

    Guardian charity appeal 2025
    The Guardian view on hope: with your help, charities can help to repair the social fabric

  • The Guardian view on Labour’s difficult year: denial of hard choices is no longer an option

  • ‘Bills keep going higher’: community ‘warm spaces’ on the rise in the UK

  • UK inflation falls sharply to 3.2% amid slowdown in food price rises

  • ‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows

  • Rise of the full nesters: what life is like with adult children who just can’t leave home

  • Festive food for less: Christmas dinner with all the cost trimmings

  • Brief letters
    Why my letters would fail the Trump visa test

  • Chop and change: pork is ‘new beef’ for money-saving Britons, report finds

  • Black Friday deals slowed down UK retail price rises in November

  • Starmer raises pressure on head of OBR by saying budget leak was ‘serious error’

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