EVERYONE KNOWS.. EXCEPT THE TORIES
LABOUR LEADER KEIR STARMER: It doesn’t have to be this way. Freezing energy bills will save households £1,000, so politicians have a choice: be on the side of working people by backing Labour’s plan or be on the side of oil and gas giants. It’s not too late. LIB DEM LEADER ED DAVEY: There is no other option: the energy price rise must be scrapped. If the Conservatives refuse, they will be responsible for millions of families going cold and hungry this winter. TUC’S FRANCES O’GRADY: Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak must wake up to the crisis. They must cancel the catastrophic rise to energy bills and increase the minimum wage and Universal Credit. AGE UK’S CAROLINE ABRAHAMS: Older people are telling us how frightened they feel. Unless a substantial new financial package is put in place quickly, we could see unprecedented numbers dying from the effects of the cold this winter. WEST YORKS MAYOR TRACY BRABIN: I’m urgently calling on the Government to bridge the gap and help families survive through the cost of living crisis. LIVERPOOL CITY REGION MAYOR,
STEVE ROTHERAM: Without an immediate, decisive intervention, more than half of UK households are about to be plunged into fuel poverty. EX PM GORDON BROWN: Millions are standing on the edge of a financial precipice. LONDON MAYOR SADIQ KHAN: Ministers must act now to help prevent this cost of living crisis becoming a national disaster. MANCHESTER MAYOR ANDY BURNHAM: There is no more urgent challenge facing us right now than the cost of living crisis. OCTOPUS CHIEF EXEC GREG JACKSON: The big thing here is we need more help for customers from the Government. CENTRICA: It’s
clear a significant intervention is needed to protect customers. UTILITA ENERGY’S BILL BULLEN: Freeze the price cap to help support millions of households and firms this winter. EX BP VP NICK BUTLER: End pernicious extra charges imposed for those using pre-payment meters. ECOTRICITY’S DALE VINCE: We need £40billion to get through this winter. That’s 10% of what was spent during the pandemic. SCOPE’S TOM MARSLAND: This support from government for disabled people isn’t going to touch the sides. JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION’S PAUL KISSACK: The nation faces another emergency. People rightly expect the Government to offer protection.
SAVE THE CHILDREN’S DAN PASKINS: When energy bills rocket in the autumn, families who already have it tough are going to find things even harder. TURN2US’S MICHAEL CLARKE: We must ask ourselves how many more of us need to fall into crisis before we’re given sufficient support to weather this storm? FUEL POVERTY ACTION’S RUTH LONDON: Energy bills are reaching levels that are simply unpayable. USWITCH’S RICHARD NEUDEGG: Households need clarity to plan for the most expensive winter in living memory. CORNWALL INSIGHT’S CRAIG LOWREY: Support payments will only scratch the surface. BY AMY-CLARE MARTIN & ALETHA ADU, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT