Andy Burnham has told the first meeting of his new cabinet that they needed to examine “all possible ways” to help families struggling with high costs.
After arriving to applause, he said: “What can we do just to take that little bit of pressure off people’s shoulders, just to give them that little extra sense that help is coming so that they can have that bit of hope that things are getting better. And that’s the mission that we’ve got to set ourselves together.”
Cost-of-Living Government
He asked his colleagues to look into what their department could do to ease cost-of-living pressures, both “big and small”. “We need to be a cost-of-living government, getting that cost of living down, looking at all possible ways of doing that.”
This all sounds very vague at the moment but we are expecting some more concrete policy announcements over the next few days.
