So called “Help” for the cost of living crisis was not expected until next month but as the prime minister comes under increasing criticism over lockdown-breaching parties, he is understood to have encouraged the chancellor to bring changes forward. However the “help” will not eliminate the taxes the government take from energy and food, and will not take the energy and food prices down to what it was before Johnson’s useless sanctions on Russian energy and food supply, sanctions that punished UK citizens for the war in Ukraine, not Russia (their economy is 4% up since the war began,).