Energy Price Cap: Burnham must ditch "continuity Starmerism"

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Energy Price Cap: Burnham must ditch "continuity Starmerism" 

Responding to the new energy price cap increase of 4%, set to take energy prices for millions of households to their highest levels in 3 years, Pippa Heylings MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Energy Security and Net Zero, said: 

“This latest rise in the price cap has wiped out the small savings from Andy Burnham’s cut of VAT on electricity bills, proving that continuity Starmerism will keep families stuck in a financial mire.

“The Prime Minister must wake up to the scale of the challenge and accept that bold change is needed to bring bills down.

“That should start with our radical plan for an Essential Energy Guarantee, taking profits from energy networks and using them to bring down costs on the essential energy used by households. We also need to fix the broken electricity market and decouple wholesale gas price from electricity so people can finally benefit from cheap, clean power”

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