This week, the U.K. energy regulator announced that the domestic energy price cap would be increased by 10%. This means that the average household energy bill, on which the price cap is based, will rise to £1,717 per year, up from £1,568. And it means that just weeks into the new Labour government, and hotly following the cancellation of pensioners’ winter fuel payments, Labour’s promises to lower bills and the cost of living look like simple lies – they had no idea how to achieve them.
In response to the news and inevitable embarrassment, the Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero, Ed Milband, took to Twitter. In a Twitter thread intended to mitigate the damage to his own and his department’s reputation, Miliband instead removed any doubt about the fact that he has no command of his brief, and little understanding of the problems the country faces.
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