FT DEBATE
The Cost of Living Crisis

**THIS IS A PAST EVENT**

FT columnist Merryn Somerset Webb offers a survival guide for the cost of living crisis in conversation with Claer Barrett, the newspaper’s Consumer Editor. Rising inflation, utility bills and food prices make 2022 the year with the biggest fall in living standards in the UK since the mid-1950s. Merryn, author of Share Power, observes that while chancellor Rishi Sunak is powerless to reverse the trend, it is still possible for ordinary investors to make money.