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Labour to push government this week to scrap energy price cap rise

They will call for it to be frozen at its current £1,971 and will set out how that can be paid for

Wales Online

How to Lose an Election Two Years Early – there’s no happy ending in this Tory romcom

Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will be leading a government that has little appetite to solve the economic crisis or even win the next election

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer will demand energy bills FREEZE this winter - cancelling £2,000 hike

Labour's leader will announce he would keep the energy bills price cap at its current level of £1,971 per year for six months, until the end of March 2023, in a pledge due on Monday

Daily Mirror

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Cost of living – live: Boris Johnson treating No 10 final weeks ‘like one big party’

Boris Johnson has been accused of running a ‘zombie government’

The Independent UK

Labour to call for energy price cap freeze this autumn

The move is expected to put further pressure on the two Tory leadership contenders.

The Independent UK

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 announces Labour plan to save families £1,000 on energy bills

Writing in the Sunday Mirror, he said a Warm Homes Plan would save 19 million families more than £1,000 off their energy bills

Daily Mirror

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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

Labour attacks ‘jobs for mates’ as bill for Tory special advisers rises to record £12.7m

Exclusive: ‘More advisers than ever – but no plan to tackle the cost of living crisis,’ says Angela Rayner

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie: Man accused of attempted murder enters not guilty plea

Sir Salman suffered damage to his liver, severed nerves in an arm and eye, was on a ventilator and unable to speak, his agent said

Evening Standard

Labour MPs defy Keir Starmer by joining striking train drivers on picket line

‘If you can’t support a picket line maybe you shouldn’t be a Labour MP’, says Aslef union boss

The Independent UK

There’s a gaping hole at the centre of British politics where ideas used to be

Ideas once animated politics. Now our political class is rudderless at a time of crisis, says writer William Davies

The Guardian - UK

‘The world is my oyster’: Nicola Sturgeon on feminism, her last push for independence and life after politics

Scotland’s first minister is one of the most capable, if divisive, politicians of her era. Could her record-breaking reign conclude with the end of the union?

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

The Guardian - UK

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Daily Record

Sir Keir Starmer calls Boris Johnson rude nickname at Edinburgh Fringe

The Labour leader also said it is "nonsense" to claim his party has not been leading on the cost-of-living crisis.

Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer brands Boris Johnson a 'bulls*****r' who 'never intended to keep promises'

Speaking at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Labour Party leader rubbished claims he had not been leading on the cost-of-living crisis, while launching an extraordinary tirade against the outgoing PM

The Independent UK

‘Nonsense’ to say Labour has not been leading on cost of living – Starmer

The Labour leader used a swear word when pressed to come up with a nickname for Boris Johnson.

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

Police failures, soaring waiting lists, pool closures: one day’s news in Tory Britain

Look at the condition of Britain’s public services and despair – this is where the ‘small state’ gets you, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Energy crisis has pushed families to the brink

Letters: Prof Mike Stein and Peter Riddle on Labour’s policy void as Britain grapples with rising costs and inflation. Plus a stark warning by Dr Thomas Richardson on the heavy price people will pay in terms of mental health problems

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'

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

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak ‘losing advantage’ over Liz Truss among public – poll

The number of people saying the former chancellor would make a good prime minister fell over the last week of July.

The National (Scotland)

Jeremy Corbyn: Scottish independence referendum is 'the right thing to do'

LABOUR have been urged to dump their “increasingly untenable” opposition to indyref2 after former leader Jeremy Corbyn said having a second vote…

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