Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A perfect storm of problems has hit the country.
The stark facts barely need rehearsing - the price of gas has rocketed, food has become more expensive, doctors' and dentists' appointments are more difficult to get, and the HGV drivers' shortage and a run on the pumps has led to a scarcity of petrol, which was already dear enough.
On top of this, the £20 Universal Credit uplift, intended to help people through the pandemic, is going. While politicians wrangle, thousands of Greater Manchester tenants face a bitter winter in the shadow of Covid and Brexit.
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