I wish I could trade places with Truss and Sunak. Perhaps then they would understand the cruelty of their worldview
• This article is part of the heat or eat diaries: dispatches from the frontline of Britain’s cost of living emergency
The news is seldom positive, but it used to be that the bad stories we heard came from faraway lands. Now, every bulletin reminds us of the pain we’re in close to home and the suffering on the horizon.
The cost of living crisis, inflation and recession are apparent every time I visit the supermarket for groceries, every time I top up my electricity meter, every time a payslip comes through my letterbox.
As told to Daniel Lavelle. James is in his 50s and lives in London. His name has been changed
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