Starmer likes to accuse Sunak of 'sticking plaster politics' – he should look closer to home ✒️ FisherAndrew79 for ipaperviews
– saving households £500 per year on their bills. Additionally, the party pledged to retrofit 19 million UK homes so all are of a high standard of energy efficiency, funding this programme by extending the windfall tax on energy companies.
It also called for the Government to ensure prepayment meter customers do not pay more than those paying by direct debit, following a four-month investigation by this newspaper, and has offered to help struggling businesses with energy costs. With this announcement Labour is drawing a clear dividing line. Putting itself on the side of hard-pressed households versus a Prime Minister allowing the energy companies to hike prices across the UK and rake in massive windfall profits. But this isn’t enough and if Labour continues to not back striking workers, the party will be guilty of the “sticking plaster politics” Starmer accuses the Government of playing.
Rising energy bills is only one half of the cost of living crisis. The other side is incomes: wages and social security have failed to keep pace with inflation for 15 years now. And the crisis is accelerating with the OBR forecasting the deepest fall in living standards on record this year and next. Labour has recently landed upon the slogan “sticking plaster politics” to characterise the short-termist, crisis management response of the Tories. But temporary price caps, moratoriums on prepayment meter and windfall taxes all smack of short-termism too. In fairness to Labour, the retrofitting of homes is a long-term and vital commitment, as is
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