Labour leader Keir Starmer has asked ‘who is going to pay?’ as he criticised the government’s failure to extend the windfall tax as Liz Truss announced her energy plan.
Ms Truss’s plan will lock average household bills to no more than £2,500 for two years from October 1. It will save households £1,000 per year, she said.
The energy package is also expected to curb inflation by up to five percentage points.
However, Mr Starmer, in response, said the plan came at a cost to households.
He said the plan “does not come cheap" and the refusal to fund it with a windfall tax showed she was "driven by dogma" and "it's working people who will pay for that".
The Labour leader previously accused the Government of writing a “blank cheque” to oil and gas giants making £170 billion in excess profits.
