I welcome measures in today’s Budget that bring help to our city.

A higher minimum wage, ending the two‑child cap in Universal Credit, and freezes on rail fares and prescriptions ease pressure where wages are low and rents take nearly 40 percent of income. Money for school libraries and playgrounds matters in communities where child poverty is at 40 percent. Lower business rates for hospitality and leisure from next April support jobs and high streets.

On climate it is one step forward with charging investment, with hundreds of new chargepoints expected in Norwich, but two steps back with the scrapping of the ECO scheme, which makes fuel poverty and insulation problems harder to resolve.

In Westminster I will keep pressing for more for core services and for a clear change in direction, so this government stands with all of us and takes on the energy giants, water companies, financiers and food intermediaries profiteering from climate breakdown, which drives the ongoing surge in living costs.

Britain needs a plan that taxes wealth fairly, devolves real power, and brings essential utilities back under public control. Until we tackle the extraction economy at its root, living standards won’t recover and the promise of “change” will remain unfulfilled.