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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Woodcock

Liz Truss energy support package ‘could add 2.5 per cent to interest rates’

PA Wire

Liz Truss’s energy support package force interest rates up by 2.5 per cent, while benefiting the rich more than the poor, new analysis has found.

Ms Truss’s refusal to consider extending the windfall tax on energy companies or imposing “solidarity taxes” on the wealthiest to pay for the package means that the full cost – estimated at up to £150bn – will fall on general taxpayers.

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