‘I wish they would walk in our shoes’

‘I wish they would walk in our shoes’

Within an hour of the chancellor finishing his statement, dozens of people were queuing outside a food bank at All Hallows Church in Leeds.

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Serving them tea and coffee as they waited in the warm autumnal sunshine, the vicar, the Rev Heston Groenewald, said he was frustrated by what the government had announced this morning.

“It’s not going to make positive change in the lives of the folks that we spend our days with. It’s increasing inequality rather than decreasing it, and that sucks," he said.

"I wish they would visit us and walk in the shoes of the people who are struggling with the cost of living crisis.

“It feels as though there’s a big disconnect between what’s going on on the ground and the decisions being made in Whitehall.”