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Bristol’s culture of collaboration fostered through its One City approach has enabled the city to respond to the cost of living crisis, but national Government urgently needs to do more, says Marvin Rees.

In the record-breaking heatwaves of last summer, as I met with community workers from across Bristol, it was difficult to reconcile the desperate warnings of the upcoming challenges in the winter for households.

But we took the then looming national cost of living crisis seriously and developed a plan, reactivating our responses to other emergencies, such as Covid, and brought together partner organisations to co-ordinate our city's response.

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