The boss of British Gas owner Centrica has called for rival Octopus to be banned from taking on new customers as it accused the UK’s energy watchdog of failing to uphold its own rules.
Chief executive Chris O’Shea claimed it was “criminal” that Ofgem has not stepped in to take action against three firms that are understood to have failed to meet financial resilience targets – with Britain’s biggest energy supplier Octopus among them.
