Martin Lewis, founder of the MoneySavingExpert website, warns there could be civil unrest later this year when energy bills go up again. Martin fears people will take to the streets in scenes similar to the Poll Tax Riots of 1990.
He told ITV’s Peston programme: “The public mood is desperate, it is angry. We may well be moving towards, if we don’t sort this, when those bill rises come in the middle of October to £2,600 in the middle of winter, I worry about civil unrest.”
Martin added: “They need to listen, and they need to stop people making choices of whether they feed themselves or feed their children. We used to have a relative poverty condition in this country and we are moving to absolute poverty, and we cannot allow that to happen.”
