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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jane Clinton

More than 100,000 people join Don’t Pay UK in protest against energy price rises

Stressed woman reading energy bills
The announcement comes as annual bills for a typical household are forecast to top £4,200 from January amid the biggest cost of living crisis in Britain for decades. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

More than 100,000 people have pledged to cancel their direct debits for gas and electricity from October in protest against rocketing energy prices, according to a campaign group.

Don’t Pay UK, which launched in June this year, said its campaign had reached “millions of people” and the support received so far “demonstrates the anger and frustration at a broken energy system that needs to be drastically transformed for the interests of people”.

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