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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Hamish Morrison

'Truss tax' energy plan 'puts profit over people' as price 'freeze' slammed

Liz Truss during her first PMQs grilling this week

THE Prime Minister’s plans to mitigate catastrophic rises in the cost of living amount to a “Truss tax” which will saddle the country with debt instead of taxing energy giants profiting from the crisis, it has been claimed.

Liz Truss announced on Thursday “a typical household” would not pay more than £2500 per year for energy – significantly less than the expected rise of more than 80% predicted for October.

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