As head teachers and NHS bosses warn they will have to cut staff to pay school and hospital energy bills, the woman likely to become our new Prime Minister refuses to come up with a plan to avert the looming catastrophe.
Liz Truss wouldn't promise direct support, which she has previously derided as “handouts”, for households, instead promising VAT and income tax cuts, which her rival Rishi Sunak condemned as “incredibly regressive”.
Schools and hospitals are not covered by the energy price cap, which will hit £3,549 a year for those on default tariffs in October, and one hospital trust told the Mirror it expected its energy bills to rocket by around £20million this year.
