Responding to the government’s announcement today on its plan to tackle the energy crisis, Portsmouth South MP, Stephen Morgan, said:
“The only fair solution to the energy bills crisis is Labour’s freeze and Liz Truss and her Government must urgently commit to it.
“But core to any solution is the question of who pays? By ruling out a windfall tax, Liz Truss, in one of her first acts as Prime Minister, has written a blank cheque to the oil and gas giants making £170 billion in excess profits, leaving the people of Portsmouth and the country to foot the bill.
“Every penny her Government refuses to raise in windfall taxes is money that they will be loading onto the British people for years to come.
“Beyond the immediate crisis, we need an accelerated clean energy drive for home-grown power and a national warm homes mission to cut bills for families. After 12 years of failed Conservative energy policy, only Labour can deliver the fresh start Britain needs.”
