The ‘poverty premium’ that flows from price increases of petrol, diesel, illuminating paraffin, electricity, etc., affects the poor differently than the rich or the middle class. This ‘poverty premium’ is best summed up by a Terry Pratchett Discworld character, Captain Samuel Vimes, who muses that the rich are rich because they manage to spend less money. They have choices about what to buy – the poor do not.

Paper by Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office