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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Graham Hiscott

Tory plot to drop windfall tax in midst of cost-of-living crisis is branded obscene

A Tory bid to scrap the windfall tax and hand even bigger profits to energy giants has been blasted as obscene.

An Energy Profits Levy was brought in last year amid uproar about the money raked in by industry giants.

As families struggled to pay their bills, companies like Shell and BP made huge profits as wholesale oil and gas prices rocketed following the war in Ukraine.

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