This is a really worrying time for families and businesses; struggling with higher food prices and gas bills and worried about their jobs and their children’s futures.

The Tory–led Government is cutting too far and too fast and risks choking off economic recovery. Unemployment is rising again and is currently at the highest level in 17 years.

One in five young people is out of work and more women are unemployed than at any time since 1988. We need to act now to show the Tory–led Government that there is another way.

Labour has set out a clear five–point plan for jobs, to help struggling families and support small businesses – I hope you will join me in supporting their calls for change.

LEON FOSTER–HILL, St John’s Rd, Grove