Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis got caught in a row with a former Conservative MP on Good Morning Britain during a discussion on the current cost of living crisis.
Former Health Minister Edwina Currie stressed that the government "cannot do everything" when it comes to the current energy crisis and that people should do "whatever they can" to save money on their energy bills. She also reaffirmed that high bills and rising cost of living falls on Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine which has driven the global cost of gas.
Despite the fact that the UK only receives a small fraction of its gas from Russia, overall wholesale prices have increased which has driven up the price of energy bills across the country. Ms Currie acknowledged that people across the country will face a "very tough winter" but noted that people should "not get emotional" about the crisis.
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She added: "What we have to do is is not get emotional about it to the exclusion of using some common sense try and sit down try and think about what we can all do whether it's in our business, whether its in our homes. Not everybody can, I accept that, but many of us can do something and when we can that helps everybody else and we really have to be cool and calm.
"Panic and emotion actually drains the energy whereas what we really need to do is conserve the energy and use it well."
She later stressed that members of the public, as well as the government, should do their bit to tackle the energy crisis by explaining that in Germany, local authorities have to turn off street lights while shops have to cut down on lighting. Martin Lewis then referred to such measures as a 'catastrophe'.
Ms Currie replied that "it doesn't help using words like that". Mr Lewis replied: "But it is a catastrophe."
He added: "You cannot ignore the rise in bills. That's what the catastrophe is, it's not my language. It's the practice of what's happening.
"We did a poll on it even 90 per cent of conservative voters...of nearly 100,000 voters on Twitter said this was a catastrophe never mind anyone else."
Ms Currie concluded that the new PM will announce new measures to tackle the crisis but it will cost "a lot of money" but everyone with a business or household should "get a piece of paper and figure out what you can do that will make life just a little bit easier".
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