What will Andy Burnham’s VAT cut on electricity bills mean for you?
Households with high electricity usage will benefit the most, but the measure is less useful for those heating their homes…
Andy Burnham considers radical shake-up to cut energy bills
Andy Burnham. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenAndy Burnham. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock Andy Burnham considers radical…
Lawyers to investigate claims of GB power grid cover-up over blackout risk
Accusations that National Energy System Operator (Neso) bosses were ‘risking blackouts to protect Neso’s reputation’, were raised in parliament. Photograph:…
Energy price cap rise ‘will push millions in Great Britain into fuel poverty’
The cap on gas and electricity rises to the equivalent of £1,862 a year from Wednesday. Photograph: Paul Melling/AlamyView image…
Cost to rewire Great Britain’s electricity network could reach £90bn in 2030s
Labour promised to make UK a clean energy superpower by 2030, bringing forward by five years previous government’s plan. Photograph:…
Will Andy Burnham ‘go big’ in expanding the role of the state?
Will Andy Burnham ‘go big’ in expanding the role of the state? In the first of a series on nationalisation,…
Climate sceptics cheering as they melt in record temperatures? This heatwave is where satire has come to die | Jonathan Freedland
People walk across the Millennium Bridge in London on Thursday as record June temperatures hit the UK. Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA…
Crown estate makes more than £1bn profit for third year running
Developers paid £875m in option fees last year to secure areas of the seabed from the crown estate, which is…
Oil price falls to pre-Iran war levels as more tankers exit strait of Hormuz
Cargo ships in the Gulf, near the strait of Hormuz. Photograph: ReutersView image in fullscreenCargo ships in the Gulf, near…
Hard-right figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’
Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch told Tory peer Philippa Stroud that Ed Miliband had made this country poorer. Photograph: Jordan…