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Energy bills: Labour urged to rule-out price cap hike

Fuel poverty and a broken energy market must become history.

Sky high energy bills are punishing households and families and plunging them into totally avoidable fuel poverty, say the Scottish Greens.
 
The party has called on the Labour government to mitigate any further hikes to the price cap and to commit to ending the brutal Winter Fuel Payment cut.
 
The call comes as Martin Lewis and others have warned that bills are likely to increase by as much as 5.7 per cent in April.
 
The Scottish Greens’ climate spokesperson, Mark Ruskell MSP, said:

“At a time when so many are struggling to make ends meet, households and families across our country will be dreading any further price hikes. 

“Labour promised to make energy bills cheaper, but they have only gone up. Keir Starmer and his colleagues must step in to halt a further rise and to support people who are feeling stretched to their limits.
 
“We badly need to fix a broken energy market that is plunging people into poverty while keeping our reliance on climate-wrecking fossil fuels.
 
“Renewable energy has helped to cut the cost of generating electricity, but that hasn't been reflected in the bills that people are paying.”
 

Mr Ruskell added:

“This winter has been even harder than it needed to be for pensioners all over the UK. 
 
"Keir Starmer’s move to cut Winter Fuel Payments is looking more punishing and cruel by the day. It is long past time for Labour to reverse this toxic decision.”