Labour Shadow Chancellor visits High Wycombe

Emma Reynolds with Morrisons CEO David Potts and Rachel Reeves during the visit to Morrisons in High Wycombe on Monday 6th February 2023. (Image supplied by The Labour Party)

The Labour Shadow Chancellor visited Morrisons in High Wycombe on Monday 6th February 2023.

Rachel Reeves, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor and Emma Reynolds, the Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for High Wycombe, visited Morrisons in High Wycombe on Monday 6th February 2023.

They spoke to the supermarket’s CEO, David Potts, staff and customers about how the cost of living crisis is shaping the store’s offering, including through their savers range and keeping prices locked low promotions.

With food prices rising, energy bills soaring and mortgages up too, families are having to cut back on everything from essentials to the treats that are normally included in the weekly shop.

Labour are calling for the government to bring in a proper, one-off windfall tax on energy giants and to use that money to stop the energy price cap going up for households in April 2023, when it is expected to rise by 40%.

The party says this will help ease the burden on families in the immediate term – but that longer term measures such as a sprint to clean power, insulating homes and getting the economy growing are needed to tackle the cost of living crisis.

Speaking at the visit, Rachel Reeves, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said: ‘The shoppers and staff we’ve met here today in High Wycombe are dealing with the fallout of the cost of living crisis – when it doesn’t have to be that way.

Energy giants are raking in enormous profits, huge windfalls of war.

Instead of landing families in High Wycombe with the bill, the government should be bringing in a proper, one-off windfall tax on energy giants, and using that money to stop the energy price cap rising in April [2023], as well as stopping the unfair penalty that those on prepayment metres have to pay.

That’s what Labour would do – putting working people in High Wycombe and across the country first.‘

*Source of information : Press release from The Labour Party.