Easing the cost of living: What should Labour do next?

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With the cost of living crisis continuing into 2025, we ask Birmingham residents what Labour should prioritise to ease the burden. What steps could improve their daily lives, and what changes are most urgently needed?

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00:00Get out, it's the wrong thing, should never have been voted in, never.

00:05And as a pensioner, I'm being hit as one of the hardest.

00:08You know, not only the £300 hating allowance,

00:11they're just trying to kill us off, I think.

00:13It's tricky when all the costs are going up,

00:16but wages aren't also going up with them.

00:18I think we have to account for there will always be a little bit of inflation,

00:22but wages aren't keeping up with that,

00:24and that's why people are feeling the struggle a bit.

00:26So I think we've got to give Labour some time to sort of work things out,

00:32because, you know, they've only just come in after being out for 14 years.

00:35I think the politicians really need to come into the real world

00:38and see what's going on around you.

00:40I tell you what, if you want to give me a ring any time, 24 hours a day,

00:44politicians, look at me, yeah, ordinary, brummy woman.

00:48Yeah, getting old now, though.

00:50But, yeah, come and live with me for a couple of weeks, right,

00:53and I'll take you around areas that you wouldn't even know existed.

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