UK Energy Bills to Soar 80% As Johnson Government Accused of Silence
No government minister appeared on Friday's interview round after the UK energy regulator unveiled a record surge in energy prices.
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No government minister appeared on Friday's interview round after the UK energy regulator unveiled a record surge in energy prices.
Ministers disappeared the morning when Ofgem confirmed its huge energy price cap hike.
"This is the Truman Show or some sh*t," one critic tweeted.
The British government may seek to impose carbon taxes on the food industry which could see the price of meat and dairy climb even further.
Now the scale of these rises has been thrown into sharp relief by the public’s advocate think tank the Tax Payers’ Alliance, which catalogued every tax change since May 2010. Changes to tax levels took place a remarkable 1,651 times in that period but remarkably considering Conservative promises, 1,034 — or 63 per cent — of those were actually rises. In all tax has gone up, on average, once every three days for over a decade, the Daily Telegraphcalculates. Underlining the disconnect between Conservative rhetoric and Conservative delivery, the TPA noted: The 2019 Conservative manifes...