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What is Labour’s plan to freeze energy bills?

Sir Keir Starmer says he ‘wouldn’t let people pay a penny more’ and argues £29bn strategy would save families £1,000 a year and help bring inflation down

The Independent UK

Liz Truss to introduce emergency cost of living budget ‘within weeks’ of becoming prime minister

But Tory leadership frontrunner’s current plans blasted as insufficient and unsustainable

The Independent UK

Labour’s energy bill freeze makes more sense politically than economically

Criticisms of proposals are many, and price tag of £30bn assumes it will be needed for only six months

The Guardian - UK

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Sunak and Truss urged to act on cost-of-living crisis with PM on holiday again

Sir Keir Starmer attacked the Tory leadership contenders, accusing the pair of lacking any ‘credible proposals’ to tackle the energy crisis.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer rejects calls to nationalise energy firms after £29billion bills bailout

Labour's leader has rejected calls for the nationalisation of energy giants, after announcing a plan to hand them £29billion to plug the gap between soaring wholesale costs and what they charge Brits

Daily Mirror

Cost of living – live: ‘Lame duck’ Johnson holidays as Labour energy plan puts pressure on next PM

Opposition leader defends ‘fully costed’ policy ahead of formal launch

The Independent UK

Labour’s plan to cut energy bills ‘may cost £60 billion’

Labour claims plan would protect households from energy bill rise ‘entirely’

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Keir Starmer pledges to freeze fuel bills by extending windfall tax

Sir Keir Starmer has set out a “very strong, robust, costed plan” to stop energy bills rising over the winter – paid for in part by an extension of the windfall levy on the profits of the oil and gas companies.The Labour leader said the £29 billion plan to address…

Evening Standard

What Keir Starmer, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak's energy bill plans save you - compared

Three people bidding to be Prime Minister all have different solutions to the cost of living crisis heading your way. We compare what the trio's plans mean for you

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson ‘continuing to work’ while on second holiday in two weeks, senior Tory claims

PM spotted in Greece shortly after returning from break in Slovenia

The Independent UK

Government must double family support over energy bills – ScottishPower CEO

Energy bosses met with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other cabinet members to discuss the crisis

Insider UK

Keir Starmer 'will not apologise' for holiday and rules out nationalising energy firms

KEIR Starmer has defended jetting off on holiday during the cost-of-living crisis as he set out his stall for dealing with soaring fuel bills,…

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer announces radical £29 billion plan to freeze energy bills to help cost of living

The Labour leader said the price freeze plan would get worried consumers through the winter and called on the 'lame duck' Tory government to enact the measures.

Daily Record

Starmer pledges to freeze fuel bills by extending windfall tax

The Opposition leader contrasted Labour’s ‘robust’ plan with the ‘internal battle’ of the Tory leadership race and ‘lame duck’ Prime Minister.

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I’ve drifted left with age, not right. If only Labour would do the same

Hope is far too important to dismiss as youthful idealism. Faced with our current political reality, it’s the only option we have, says author Lynsey Hanley

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer insists energy plan has ‘double benefit’ as he defends holiday during cost of living crisis

Accuses Tories of ‘walking past’ the problem

The Guardian - UK

Starmer says government ‘just not good enough’ on cost of living crisis as he defends plan to freeze energy bills – as it happened

Labour leader says policy for a windfall tax on energy is needed to reduce inflation

Asharq Al-Awsat

Britain’s Opposition Labor Party Demand Energy Price Cap Freeze

Britain's main opposition Labor Party called on Monday for the energy price cap to be frozen this autumn to help the public deal with another expected surge in fuel bills during the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades. Labor leader Keir Starmer said his party, if in power, would cap energy…

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The Guardian - UK

Starmer says his radical plan to freeze energy bills is needed to cut inflation

Labour leader contrasts his party’s proposal to help households with the inaction of ‘lame duck’ government

The Guardian - UK

Oil prices drop by $5 to lowest since before Russia invaded Ukraine – as it happened

Live coverage of business, economics and markets as Chinese economy shows signs of slowdown and Institute for Fiscal Studies warns on maintaining similar level of energy bills support

Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer explains why he's 'not going to apologise' for going on holiday during crisis

Labour's leader hit back at criticism saying: 'I’ve also got another job that’s really important and that is I’m a dad - and I’m not going to apologise for going on holiday with my wife and kids'

Evening Standard

Labour vows to freeze energy price cap and extend windfall tax

The Labour leader promises a £29 billion support package to deal with a ‘national economic emergency’.

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: From Germany to Japan, five plans to confront the energy crisis

In today’s newsletter: Nationalising utilities, firing up disused coal plants and restrictions on air con – this is how other nations are tackling spiralling energy chaos

The Independent UK

What the papers say – August 15

Monday’s papers focus on Labour’s promise to ‘freeze cruel bills now’ with a ‘fully-funded’ plan to combat the ‘national economic emergency’.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson spotted in Greece on second holiday in two weeks amid cost of living crisis

PM accused of treating final weeks in office as ‘one big party’

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