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John

This is a big week in Westminster with the Chancellor making clear that “taxes are going up”. For people who work hard, we want to see taxes being kept low and public services being run as efficiently as possible.

Our MPs will be in their seats and have already been pressing the Government to ensure our hospitals and schools are properly funded and that working families get the help they need whether than is through Tax Free Childcare or energy support.

Recent weeks have demonstrated that Sinn Fein’s claims about hundreds of millions being available to put into people’s pockets have been laid bare as lies. The NI Fiscal Council has confirmed that Northern Ireland’s budget has a £660m black hole.

Sinn Fein would have us believe that if there was an Executive in place all our public services would be fixed and energy bills reduced. The truth that Sinn Fein ignore is that when the Executive was in office it was Sinn Fein who failed miserably to get agreement on a budget.

Conor Murphy lectures about our public finances as if he is a spectator, yet he was the Finance Minister who failed to secure agreement for a budget. It was Sinn Fein’s way or no way and all the other parties urged him to revisit his proposals but like his predecessor he did not get the budget business done.

Whether in London or Belfast Sinn Fein are all talk and no action.

The period ahead is going to be challenging. Even if the Northern Ireland Executive was to be re-formed tomorrow the financial challenges faced are significant. It will be the United Kingdom Government that have the levers and controls of expenditure and will determine our level of spending locally.

Equally the real levers to help in this cost-of-living squeeze rest in Westminster. That is why the DUP are there every week making the case for Northern Ireland in Parliament.

Whilst the Secretary of State has committed to deliver the £400 energy payment for Northern Ireland, the Government needs to get on with it. Help is also needed for the motorist and greater focus on whether energy customers are being exploited at this time. We support the extension of a windfall tax on the energy companies that are making billions off the increase in wholesale energy prices.

We continue to make the point that the NI Protocol is adding to the cost of living in Northern Ireland. All across Northern Ireland unionists are determined to see this situation redressed and the protocol replaced with arrangements that restore our place fully within the United Kingdom.

We will not tolerate internal borders within our own country. The Government must continue to focus on getting the Protocol arrangements replaced by measures that unionists can support and that will protect our place in the UK Internal Market. This will enable us to restore Stormont on a solid foundation. Our determined message is getting through and we will persevere knowing that it will be worth the effort.

If you support us and want to help, or get involved in any way, join the party.

Thank you.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

DUP Leader

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