Labour's Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and local High Wycombe candidate Emma Reynolds have visited a High Wycombe supermarket to talk about the cost of living crisis.

Rachel Reeves was in town yesterday (February 6) visiting Morrisons to speak to customers about how the increase in food prices is affecting them.

The pair spoke to the supermarket’s CEO David Potts, staff and customers about how the cost of living crisis is shaping the store’s offering, including through their savers range and keeping prices low.

With food prices rising, energy bills soaring and mortgages up too, families are having to cut back on everything from essentials to the treats that are normally included in the weekly shop.

According to the Labour party, in Wycombe, the average household could see their mortgage rise by £3,740 a year.

Speaking at the visit, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: “The shoppers and staff we’ve met here today in High Wycombe are dealing with the fallout of the cost of living crisis – when it doesn’t have to be that way.

“Energy giants are raking in enormous profits, huge windfalls of war.

“Instead of landing families in High Wycombe with the bill, the government should be bringing in a proper, one-off windfall tax on energy giants, and using that money to stop the energy price cap rising in April, as well as stopping the unfair penalty that those on prepayment metres have to pay.

“That’s what Labour would do – putting working people in High Wycombe and across the country first.”

Labour are calling for the government to bring in a proper, one-off windfall tax on energy giants, and to use that money to stop the energy price cap going up for households in April, when it is expected to rise by 40%.

The party says this will help ease the burden on families in the immediate term – but that longer term measures such as a sprint to clean power, insulating homes and getting the economy growing are needed to tackle the cost of living crisis.