British households continue to face the dire realities of a worsening cost of living crisis, which the UK Government has rightly made its number one priority.

This briefing paper outlines a host of measures that the government could implement immediately to help address the short term challenges of the cost of living crisis – most at minimal or no cost to the Treasury.

The author argues that the UK Government must begin by immediately conducting a cross-Whitehall assessment of the next two years’ worth of proposed policy changes and ensure that they do not impose any additional charges on individuals and households. If they do, they must be either delayed or scrapped entirely.