A couple of weeks ago I caught a bit of Newsnight. For context, I’ve got a three-year-old and a 13-month-old, so if I’m lucky (and on a good night) there’s about a 15-minute window to let my hair down at the end of the evening. And that’s what I was doing with it. But anyway. I was thrown back by one question from the interviewer: “Are we seeing a new cost of living crisis?”

It’s hard to know where to start with that one. Because – as we in the Citizens Advice network can attest – the cost of living crisis we’ve been experiencing for years isn’t over. And it also wasn’t very new for lots of people.

What the cost of living crisis did – and is doing – is entrench and exacerbate existing inequality.

Yet what tends to happen is that the media, policymakers and governments get stuck in........

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