RACHEL Reeves has been left red-faced after Stephen Flynn shared an old post from the Chancellor on cutting energy bills.
We told on Tuesday how Labour MPs voted to reject an amendment to the Great British Energy Bill which would make reducing household energy bills by £300 a priority.
During the General Election, Keir Starmer pledged to reduce household energy bills by up to £300 through the creation of GB Energy.
Writing on Twitter/X, SNP Westminster leader Flynn shared an old post from Reeves from June 24 this year which stated: “Great British Energy, a publicly owned energy company, will cut energy bills by up to £300.
“Family finances will be my priority.”
Flynn (below) himself commented: “Labour voted against giving GB Energy the remit to reduce energy bills by £300. Just FYI.”
The amendment to the legislation had been tabled by the Tories and was designed to make it a strategic priority for GB energy to reduce household energy bills.
MPs voted 361 to 124 to reject it with shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho commenting: “These weren’t one-off promises, it was the party line as dictated by the Secretary pf State. These promises are still up in writing.
“In fact, the Labour Party website still says that their energy plans would cut bills by £300 on average but oddly, ministers now don’t seem so keen on that pledge.
“We’ve asked them in this House, they’ve been asked by the media but the number seems to have vanished.”
MPs also voted 361 to 115 to reject a Tory bid to mandate a strategic priority for GB Energy to create 650,000 new jobs throughout the UK by 2030.
