Energy bill and tax rises will hammer households by an average £1,200 from April, and could turn voters against Boris Johnson
Turn on the radio or scroll down your phone and the big headlines belong to Covid. But when this latest version of the plague drops off the front pages, another story is set to take its place – and this one will hang around for most of the year, setting the terms of trade at Westminster and possibly deciding Boris Johnson’s future.
The cost of living is about to shape our politics in a way that it hasn’t for decades.
Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist and senior economics commentator
