but with living standards set to fall further than in any year since the 1950s, today he faced accusations that he hadn't grasped the scale of the cost of living crisis. but he argued it helped millions of people by blunting the impact of his national insurance rise. raising national insurance thresholds, which is a tax cut for £330 for 30 million workers, and then getting round to cutting income tax, those are all tax—cutting measures. we also cut tax for businesses to make it cheaperfor them to employ staff. it's the hardest part about this job, not being able to do everything that people would like you to do, but i can't make every problem go away, but where we can make a difference we want to, and that's what yesterday was about. even some newspapers usually supportive of the conservatives have been pressing for more. many of my constituents in south