‘Dual crisis’ Sunak handed 5 point energy plan to tackle soaring bills and ‘outlast Truss’

While the Government’s Energy Price Guarantee has frozen household bills at £2,500, this is still over twice the £1,277 that Britons were paying just a year ago. 

This is why, Friends of the Earth (FoE), a climate activist group, has urged Mr Sunak to adopt a long term solution to tackling both the energy and climate crises, by phasing out reliance on gas. 

Kierra Box, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: “The dual cost of living and climate crises remain the biggest challenges for the new Prime Minister, but they’re now even more pressing thanks to the political chaos and environmental back-pedalling of recent weeks.

“Rishi Sunak has pledged he’ll deliver on the government’s climate targets. Yet his track record as Chancellor – which saw new North Sea oil and gas fast-tracked, levies for domestic flights cut and a weak windfall tax on profiting fossil fuel companies imposed – suggests otherwise.

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1687168/energy-crisis-rishi-sunak-new-prime-minister-energy-climate-plan-bills-fracking-truss