His hastily-agreed policy to slash the green levy energy firms pay comes
after the Labour leader pledged to freeze fuel bills if he is elected
Rattled David Cameron will today agree to reduce fuel bills by £50 – after mounting pressure from rival Ed Miliband.
His hastily-agreed policy to slash the green levy energy firms pay comes after the Labour leader pledged to freeze fuel bills if he is elected.
The Tory PM claims the Coalition’s energy initiative will be worth an average of £50 a year while honouring his party’s green pledges.
But households will still see their bills rise.
Inflation-busting price hikes already announced will add £107 to the average bill, taking it to £1,443. Npower’s 4.7million customers will be hit today by a 10.4 per cent rise – nearly five times inflation.
Mr Cameron’s cut to energy-saving levies comes ahead of Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on Thursday, and days after it was claimed that the Prime Minister had dismissed those levies as “green c**p”.
Writing in today’s Sunday Mirror, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls says only a price freeze will truly benefit consumers.
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