Cost of living: the pros and cons of ministers’ ideas to ease crisis

We weigh up the Tory proposals - from eased safety rules for child nurseries to losing the green levy on energy bills

The cabinet has been discussing ways of lessening the burden on families and individuals struggling amid the cost of living crisis, in particular by coming up with non-fiscal" proposals that do not involve increasing taxes.

They include ideas which have been put forward by Boris Johnson, and others that have already been in circulation.