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Keith Baker, Research Fellow in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy, Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University

The UK is facing an energy bills crisis, and no major party is prepared for it

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The UK is heading into the greatest cost of living crisis in living memory. Looming energy price rises are going to drive huge swathes of the population into fuel poverty, and none of the proposals being put forward by our political parties at Westminster or in Scotland or Wales are sufficient to deal with it.

So, let’s look at what the parties are proposing for households (businesses are also facing a serious threat but politicians have so far largely ignored them).

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