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Labour demands energy price cap freeze amid rising cost of living

Starmer’s party joins Lib Dems in calling for October freeze, as Treasury considers plan to reduce cap

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer demands ban on raising energy prices

Exclusive: Labour calls for the price cap to remain at £1,971 as charities warn Tory leadership candidates of catastrophic impact on the cost of living

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Vicky Featherstone’s cultural highlights

The Royal Court’s artistic director raves about a non-binary memoir, admires Gordon Brown’s stand on poverty and salutes Cornelia Parker’s proper mermaid

The Guardian - UK

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Businesses and wealthy people ‘handed £36bn tax cuts under Rishi Sunak’

Tax Justice UK calculates at least £35.8bn handed to businesses in tax cuts

The Independent UK

Labour vows to end ‘outrageous’ energy premiums faced by prepayment customers

Labour says policy is first in package to be unveiled in coming days

The Independent UK

Britain is sliding towards an energy precipice. So where are its leaders?

Gordon Brown’s solutions highlight a vacuum that extends beyond the Tories and to the party he once led

The Guardian - UK

Gordon Brown economics versus Liz Truss tax cuts: a new twist in the battle to resolve the UK’s cost of living crisis

The ongoing Conservative Party leadership hustings haven’t seen much agreement between candidates, but they have resulted in the creation of a new political narrative: “Gordon Brown economics”. Foreign secretary Liz Truss explained away her rejection of cost of living “handouts” for households with the phrase. But even as she indicated…

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UK meets energy firms but no help yet for hard-hit consumers

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers have held inconclusive talks with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help people cope with soaring gas and electricity prices

The Independent UK

What is a windfall tax and will it be extended to UK energy providers?

Explainer: Up to £4bn could be raised from levy on electricity generators, but ministers are rowing back on idea

The Guardian - UK

Lame duck Boris Johnson pops in to energy crisis talks - but there’s STILL no plan

The Prime Minister made a surprise appearance at talks in Downing Street, where he lives and works, as bills rise to £4,200 - but announced no new measures to help struggling Brits

Daily Mirror

Energy bill price cap rise should not go ahead, says Nicola Sturgeon

The First Minister said the UK Government was ‘missing in action’ on energy bills.

The Independent UK

Energy bills could peak at £5,000 a year for households according to latest forecast

The cost of living crisis will deepen over the winter according to a new forecast as Boris Johnson is jogged into attending a meeting with energy companies.

Daily Record

Martin Lewis and Gordon Brown pile pressure onto Tories as bills could hit £5000

THE UK Government is coming under more pressure than ever before to get its act together and take action over the ever-growing energy bill crisis.

The National (Scotland)

Gordon Brown calls for energy firms to be nationalised if they fail to cut household bills

The former Prime Minister said urgent action was needed to meet the cost of living crisis that he compared to the 2008 banking crash.

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Daily Mirror

Energy firms that can't keep bills down should be nationalised, Gordon Brown demands

The ex-PM has a plan to deal with energy bills hitting £4,200 - and says firms that can't meet it should go temporarily into public ownership as a 'last resort'

Daily Mirror

Crunch energy talks today as Tories threaten windfall tax - but Liz Truss doesn't want it

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng will meet energy firms today and a new windfall tax is thought to be on the table - despite likely PM Liz Truss rejecting the idea

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: The weeks that could decide fate of Ukraine conflict

In today’s newsletter: Nearly half a year into the war, and with no end in sight, the coming months could be crucial – foreign correspondent Luke Harding explains why

Liverpool Echo

People across Merseyside could be 'cut adrift' over winter

Stark warning as calls grow for government to hold emergency budget

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The Independent UK

Gordon Brown calls for government to drop energy price cap and nationalise firms which cannot lower bills

Former Labour prime minister says ‘several urgently needed decisions’ need to be taken

The Independent UK

Ministers to hold crunch talks with energy bosses over winter price hikes

The Chancellor will press energy company executives to share breakdown of their finances to tackle cost-of-living challenges

The Guardian - UK

Gordon Brown says energy firms unable to offer lower bills should be temporarily re-nationalised

Former PM calls for energy price cap to be scrapped and new lower prices renegotiated by government

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Tory infighting: a bad policy auction

Editorial: ‘Blue-on-blue’ bickering makes a lively spectacle – but it gives a narrow, rightwing frame to bigger, broader issues

The Guardian - UK

We must tax profits now, freeze energy prices – and if necessary bring suppliers into the public sector

Without urgent action, families are seeing nothing more than pain now and pain later. There is a way through, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK

With Keir Starmer on holiday, Labour treads water on cost of living

Analysis: Gordon Brown, Martin Lewis and Ed Davey are the voices being heard, as the opposition is left with the same policy as Sunak

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss hints at cost of living U-turn as she could give Brits 'targeted help'

The Tory leadership hopeful pointedly refused to rule out cost-of-living payments - seconds after branding them “Gordon Brown style economics I don’t support”

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