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The cost of living crisis is hitting people's pockets hard all across the world.
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Answer to Dictation 2
It made basic necessities like food, heating and transport unaffordable.
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Energy prices have more than doubled this year for many consumers.
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They do not have enough money to use gas or electricity to boil potatoes.
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Exacerbated by rises in contributions to the country's health care system.
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Brown lambasted the man responsible for controlling Britain's finances.
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Any caring and compassionate chancellor would want to do something about this poverty.
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You cannot ignore the needs of parents who are having to choose.
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Further price hikes and food shortages are on the horizon.
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Answer to Dictation 10
Government critics are calling for a one off windfall tax on the huge profits.
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