‘Energy or rent?’ Britons expect rising hardship after Sunak’s spring statement

Faced with runaway food and energy bills, people in work and retirement see little relief in chancellor's tweaks to NI and fuel duty

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The fuel duty cut is welcome but there's not really anything else," said 61-year-old Susan Lee, from Bath, who retired early on medical grounds. I wasn't asking for anything extra, just for benefits to have parity with inflation, but we haven't even got that."