Keir Starmer defended the costs of his plan to freeze energy bills this winter after some economists said it could cost as much as furlough.Our scheme is fully funded.
Our scheme is fully funded and it’s fully funded partly by this windfall tax on the oil and gas companies making excess profits.During a visit to the Nationwide building society headquarters in Swindon, Keir Starmer was asked what action he would take now to deal with the current cost-of-living crisis, rather than focusing on expected rising bills in the winter, PA Media reports.That’s why we support tailored schemes like the £650 to those on universal credit and into pensions.
I can tell you millions of people are really worried about what’s going to happen this autumn and this winter. They’re hearing absolutely nothing from this government.it is “confident” that people will be able to get a new bivalent Covid-19 jab as part of the autumn booster programme. So we are quite confident that we’ll be able to deliver the programme with a bivalent vaccine throughout the next few weeks.
Keir Starmer has vowed that his party “wouldn’t let people pay a penny more” on their gas and electricity bills this winter, proposingand preventing the average household bill from reaching £3,600. Over the coming weeks, the party will set out more on its energy policy offer, including plans to upgrade 19m homes to make them more energy efficient, double onshore and offshore wind capacity and triple solar power., funded in part by an expanded windfall tax, is the radical approach needed to help households and reduce inflation, contrasting it with the inaction of a “lame duck” government.