Sunak’s windfall tax is a ‘sticking plaster’, say climate campaigners

Sunak also announced that oil and gas companies that invest in new fossil fuel production would receive a tax break worth 90% of the windfall tax. Photograph: Simon Price/Alamy

The windfall tax is only a “sticking plaster” to provide temporary relief on energy bills that does nothing to improve the UK’s leaky homes, and encourages oil and gas companies into more production, climate campaigners have said.

They say this will increase the UK’s dependence on fossil fuels instead of supporting a switch to green energy.