AS hundreds fear for their lives after today’s Budget, a woman close to retirement tells the Star how the Tories’ “all in this together” policies have left her and her husband struggling to make ends meet.

Linda Taylor and husband Dennis have worked all their lives but found themselves hard up as salaries froze and costs kept rising over the last few years.

Mr Taylor was made redundant from a job in a steelworks and the couple took a small private pension, but it failed to cover their social rent in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.