Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, speaking in the West Midlands later today will launch Labour’s action plan to protect family budgets. 
 
He will be accompanied by Ed Balls and Rachel Reeves on a visit to a supermarket cafe and then hold a Q&A with members of the public at a local community centre.
  

Joan Bakewell is leading an e-petition to the Downing Street website calling on David Cameron to think again on his Government’s unfair raid on vulnerable pensioners announced in last Wednesday’s Budget. 

In the same Budget David Cameron and George Osborne gave a £3 billion tax cut to the richest one per cent. 

Cathy Jamieson MP, Labour’s Shadow Treasury Minister, commenting on the average petrol price reaching 140p a litre, said: 

“Hard pressed motorists and businesses are being hit hard by record petrol prices. But there is still no sign of the fair fuel stabiliser the Chancellor promised in last year's Budget.  

Budget response from Labour.

Pensions
 
Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said:

“George Osborne has tried to bury his £3 billion ‘Granny Tax’ raid on pensioners over the next four years. The freeze in the personal allowance for pensioners will see 4.4 million pensioners who pay income tax losing an average of £83 per year next April. And people turning 65 next year will lose up to £322.