When the UK’s new prime minister forms a government on September 6, he or she will need a rapid plan to address soaring household energy bills this winter.
With estimates that the annual average combined gas and electricity bill will rise from £1,971 in the summer to £3,582 at the start of October, and more than £4,000 by January, households are frightened that they will need to choose between heating and eating this winter.
Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, declared the situation was a “national emergency” on Monday, echoing the consumer champion and founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, Martin Lewis, who said last week that households faced “a national crisis on the scale that we saw in the pandemic”.
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