Labour price freeze ‘is just make-believe’
Daily Express|August 16, 2022
LABOUR’S plan for an energy price freeze would end up costing as much as the Covid furlough bailout and is based on fantasy figures, economists warn.
Sam Lister
Labour price freeze ‘is just make-believe’

Sir Keir Starmer set out proposals to hold bills at the current level of £1,971 for six months from October to save a typical household £1,000.

The Labour leader insisted it was a “very strong, robust, costed” £29billion scheme that would be partly funded by increasing the windfall tax on oil and gas companies.

But Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, said the proposals would need to run for more than the planned six months.

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