The Policy Ask with Shaun Spiers: “Grenfell is a terrible reminder of the cost of deregulation”
The executive director of the Green Alliance on retaining EU laws, funding for farmers and the benefits of being outspoken.
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Vague policy is leaving businesses in the dark on their energy bills
The government is causing companies to waste money while they wait to find out how much help they will receive.
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Let’s not forget to scrutinise the new energy policy
It’s riddled with holes and shows most generosity towards energy companies.
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Liz Truss finally unveils plan to freeze energy bills this winter
Questions about how to pay for the multi-billion pound plan were quickly overshadowed by the Queen’s ill-health, but they will…
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Who is funding Liz Truss’s energy price cap?
The Prime Minister is expected to announce plans to freeze energy bills today – but at a cost to the…
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Liz Truss’s energy bills plan sounds suspiciously like Labour’s – but with a twist
Reports suggest the new Prime Minister will freeze our bills – but we’ll still pay for it.
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The energy crisis is a bonfire of free-market vanities
The whole of European capitalism is facing the spectre of price controls, windfall taxes and even nationalisation.
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What Liz Truss means for Labour
The new prime minister is not the gift to Keir Starmer that many on the left think.
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How the energy crisis is devastating businesses
Energy bills for the average small business have quadrupled in the last 18 months.
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PMQs today: Liz Truss’s ideological dividing lines could be a gift to Labour
The Prime Minister’s performance was confident but her opposition to a windfall tax puts her in dangerous territory.
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Is this the energy industry’s “Lehman moment”?
Energy suppliers and banks are in a pinch that looks a lot like 2008.
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Spin to win your energy bills? We’re living in a Black Mirror dystopia
This Morning’s tone-deaf prize shows up our late-capitalist hellscape.
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England’s regions are not equally insulated for the coming winter
Exorbitant energy prices mean that a well-insulated house is more valuable than ever.
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From energy prices to inflation: how Liz Truss plans to tackle the economy
The new Prime Minister will take charge of a country facing huge economic challenges.
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Liz Truss’s National Insurance cut would fail to help Britain’s poorest
The Tory front-runner’s proposal would save the poorest tenth of households just 76p per month.
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Why are energy bills rising faster in the UK compared to Europe?
The energy price crisis is unfolding across Europe – but UK consumers will feel more pain than European ones.
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“I’m not cutting down on cups of tea”: the Brits refusing to pay their energy bills
The Don’t Pay UK protest movement is gathering momentum ahead of an 80 per cent rise in gas and electric…
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Energy bill strikes are gaining public support
More people support the non-payment of bills than oppose it.
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Can your favourite pub afford to keep the lights on this winter?
Business electricity spending is set to rise rapidly in October.
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There’s a new factor pushing up energy prices, and it has nothing to do with Russia
The heatwave has left rivers and reservoirs across Europe at record low levels, and it's driving up the price of…
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