IN Downing Street on July 13 our unelected PM Mrs May promised to make Britain a country that works for everyone and not just for the privileged few.

So what does she and her Chancellor offer in the autumn statement?

A range of measures that appear to offer a little comfort to all those people who are just about managing.

But when you take into account inflation and years of austerity and wage restraint, the bottom 30 per cent of our struggling families will be worse off in 2019 than they were in 2008.

She has managed to find an extra £240 million for the expansion of grammar schools but not an extra penny for our sick and vulnerable elderly.

Councillor Sam Naylor Northwich