Renfrewshire MP slams Downing Street over cost of living help

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AN MP has called for action over the catastrophic cost of living crisis, branding the UK Government's actions as "reckless".It came as new figures revealed this week that inflation has hit seven per cent as the crisis deepens - the highest level for 30 years.And now SNP MP Gavin Newlands has hit out at the Tory government's "failure" to get a grip on the soaring cost of living,He called on multi-millionaire Chancellor Rishi Sunak to do more to help shore up struggling households as the whopping rise in domestic energy prices begins to bite.Financial analysts had predicted a rise in the rate of inflation to around 6.7 per cent but the Office for National Statistics revealed on Wednesday that it had gone even higher than predictions suggest.The rate of inflation - the change in prices for goods and services over time - measures costs including consumer price inflation, producer price inflation and the House Price Index.Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.

Sign up to our newsletters here.It does not include energy costs which rose by 54 per cent at the beginning of April after regulator Ofgem allowed a rise in the consumer price cap apparently to accommodate rising wholesale energy costs for utilities companies.Now Gavin, who represents Paisley and Renfrewshire North at Westminster, has hit out at the chancellor as campaigners are warning the UK faces a perfect storm of rising prices, reduced trade, and a flatlining economy, putting jobs and livelihoods at risk at the worst possible time.

He said: "With inflation rising to a staggering 30 year high, the Tory cost of living crisis continues to spiral out of control with no sign of the UK government stepping up to the challenge to protect families and