Martin Lewis has taken aim at Liz Truss's tax cutting plans to help solve the current cost-of-living crisis saying it could leave millions "endangered this winter".
The money saving expert issued a dire warning to households already struggling to pay their bills that it is about to get a lot worse in the coming months.
Truss announced last week that she would stop so-called "handouts" to households across the country, and instead said she would cut tax.
In a new dire outlook for households, Cornwall Insight said bills are set to soar to around £3,582 in October, from £1,971 on Tuesday, before rising even further in the new year.
Lewis told the BBC's Today programme: "Tax cuts will not help the millions of the poorest in society who are making the choice between eating and eating. It will just not help them because they don't pay tax.
"State pensioners, the new energy price cap on typical use, and many pensioners have higher than typical use, is going to be 45 per cent of the current state pension and more of the older form of the state pension. 45 per cent.
"This is not a mortgage, this is not rent. This is just energy bills and tax cuts is not going to help the poorest pensioners. It's not going to help those on Universal Credit and dropping the Green Levy is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.
"It's a £150 - we're talking a year-on-year - rise here. By the time you get to January, over 18 months, some people will see their bills go from £800 to £4,200 on the same use.
"This is a national crisis on the scale that we saw in the pandemic. We are currently in that position where we are watching the beds in European hospitals and doing nothing about it.
"We need to get firm decisions coming from the key parties. If it is just tax cuts and the Green Levy then we are going to leave millions destitute and endangered this winter, and that cannot happen in our country."
'No handouts'
Truss said during a Tory party hustings in Darlington last night that she "fundamentally" disagrees with "putting up taxes and then also giving out benefits" to help with the rising cost of living.
Asked about what she would do to deal with rising fuel prices, the South West Norfolk MP told the hustings audience: "I understand people are struggling with their bills on fuel and food but the first thing we should do as Conservatives is help people have more of their own money.
"What I don't support is taking money off people in tax and then giving it back to them in handouts. That to me is Gordon Brown economics."
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