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Truss plans to ease living costs ‘would leave millions out in the cold’

The Foreign Secretary has promised ‘decisive action’ if she is made PM to deliver ‘immediate support’.

The Independent UK

Millions of Britons at risk of poverty, cold-home deaths as energy prices soar

Energy bills are set to skyrocket for UK residents in October, potentially leading to more deaths than the 10,000 people who already die each year due to cold homes.

ABC News

Boris Johnson says 'pipeline of cash' on way but big decisions will have to wait

The lame duck Prime Minister said that the government will be announcing more support next month - after he leaves office - but charities have warned that action is needed now after today's energy price hike was confirmed

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'Dereliction of duty' anger as ministers vanish from TV as energy bills hike confirmed

No members of the government appeared on breakfast shows to respond and take questions on the crisis in a further sign that the zombie government is failing to act

Daily Mirror

'Dereliction of duty': Government ministers absent from TV studios after energy price cap hike

Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves accused ministers of being nowhere to be seen on the morning of the Ofgem announcement

Wales Online

Martin Lewis warns lives will be lost without more help on energy bills

Expert says Tory ministers and leadership candidates doing nothing to allay people’s panic and dismay

The Guardian - UK

‘Armageddon’: Energy price hike will ‘cost lives’ and leave children hungry, charities warn Tory candidates

People will die from 80% price rise without more support, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak told

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Martin Lewis issues dire warning as Ofgem raises energy price cap by 80 per cent

ENERGY regulator Ofgem confirmed that the average household’s yearly bill would rise from £1971 to £3549 from October ...

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Labour calls for emergency budget as energy cap set to top £3,500

Ofgem announcement will ‘strike fear’ into hearts, says Rachel Reeves, amid accusations of profiteering at oil and gas firms

The Guardian - UK

Work doesn’t pay. Labour will fix that

Squeezed pay has forced too many working people to use food banks, say Labour frontbenchers Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves

The Guardian - UK

Labour sets out plan to link minimum wage to cost of living

Exclusive: earnings of lowest-paid could rise by £832; lower rates for 18- to 22-year-olds to be scrapped

The Guardian - UK

Scottish off-grid homes will benefit from Labour plans to freeze energy price cap

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed that Labour's £29 billion plan will reach households that rely on heating oil or gas tanks instead of being connected to the main supply.

Daily Record

Labour to push energy price cap policy in campaign blitz

Party aims to get out message on plan to tackle cost of living before new Conservative PM enters No 10

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss’s plans to help lowest earners pay energy bills ‘insulting’, says Labour

Analysis of tax proposals shows a full-time employee on national minimum wage would gain £1 a week

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Labour vows to stop 'outrageous' energy prepayment meter costs

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged that Labour would end the unfairness of consumers relying on prepayment meters having to pay more than those on direct debit.

The Guardian - UK

UK energy bills ‘set to cost two months’ wages’, ministers warned

TUC calls for October energy price cap rise to be cancelled as chancellor tells firms to invest ‘extraordinary profits’

Daily Mirror

Labour will cut energy bills for 4million poorest Brits feeding the meter, Rachel Reeves says

The £46-a-year intervention from Labour - or £100 a year from January - comes as Keir Starmer faces mounting calls to set out the party's vision - and help for the poorest Brits

The Independent UK

Labour pledges to address ‘unjustifiable’ costs of prepayment energy meters

The party estimates that its policy would help to bring prepayment energy prices into line with those for direct debit customers.

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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

Daily Record

'Shameful' tax loophole which benefits oil giants must be closed, demands Labour

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has revealed how oil companies get over 90p of every £1 invested in the North Sea back as a tax break.

The Independent UK

Business leaders join calls for emergency cost-of-living support

CBI chief Tony Danker has warned the Government against a summer of inactivity, following on from Gordon Brown’s plea for urgent measures

The Guardian - UK

Truss ‘irresponsible’ for threatening to review Bank of England remit

Labour’s Rachel Reeves says Conservatives are ‘playing blame game’ for UK’s economic problems

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak tear into each other as Britain heads for recession

Both candidates to be the next Prime Minister questioned the other's approach as Labour warned that the Tories "have lost control of the economy"

The Guardian - UK

Big oil’s quarterly profits hit £50bn as UK braces for even higher energy bills

Labour condemns ‘eye-watering’ gains and renews call for windfall tax to ease pressure on household finances

The Guardian - UK

Not radical enough? Starmer’s caution may yet carry Labour to power

Some of the party faithful are impatient for more, but they must keep their eyes fixed firmly on the prize, says Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist

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