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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Alex Lawson Energy correspondent

Don’t Pay: the campaigners urging Britons to ‘strike’ over energy bills

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Protesters at a cost of living demonstration in London on Saturday 1 October. Photograph: Thomas Eddy/Rex/Shutterstock

More than 193,000 people have pledged to “strike” from paying their energy bills if a million Britons commit to not paying.

Originally, the Don’t Pay campaign had pledged not to pay from 1 October, the date regulator Ofgem’s price cap was due to rise, if a million people had signed up. The scale would “give safety in numbers” from repercussions, the anonymous organisers argued.

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