Truss poised to scrap £400 energy bills ‘handout’ for richer Brits and offer targeted help

“It is not an ideal outcome, putting it very mildly, that people who don’t need it are receiving quite substantial sums of money from the state. That is not, frankly, a targeted package, is it?”

Another Ms Truss campaign source has said: “A huge amount of Rishi’s £15billion has gone to people who don’t need it. Giving £400 to everyone is ill-directed.”

But Ms Truss’ team are not thought to have decided on what level they would stop the discount at.

However, Ms Truss has previously argued against providing handouts to help households cope with skyrocketing bills.

It comes as horror price cap predictions have warned that the annual maximum tariff customers will have to fork out could reach over £4,000 by January, where millions of Britons will have to choose between heating and eating as fuel poverty looms on the horizon.

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