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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 16 August 2022 - Growing calls for halt to energy cap
Description: The opposition Labour Party has stolen a march on the Government by announcing that were it to be in power, it would freeze the energy cap for six months.
While the two candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister have spoken in very general terms about plans to help consumers as the cost-of-living crisis escalates, this is the first solid and practical solution that has been suggested.
The opposition leader, Sir Keir Starmer, has suggested that the freezing of the cap could be funded by a windfall tax on energy firms who have made record profits as prices have...