Seventy-six Conservative MPs have backed calls for Theresa May to press ahead with a cap on energy prices. In May, Mrs May told the Sun she would, if re-elected, introduce a cap on “unfair” price rises to help 17 million families on standard variable tariffs. But plans put forward by…
Read MoreConservative MPs have warned Theresa May that their support for her government’s Brexit legislation is not unconditional, as they demanded significant changes to the EU withdrawal bill within minutes of backing it. Parliament’s post-midnight vote resulted in the prime minister facing no rebellion from within her party, as the government…
Read MoreThe repeal bill aims to achieve something pretty simple: when we leave the EU, all current EU law will become British law so that life goes on as normal after Brexit. Nothing more. It ought to be a rather boring, technical exercise in legal copying and pasting. Very dull. Nothing…
Read MoreThe following article was published in the Financial Times by Nathalie Thomas, Energy Correspondent. Britain’s energy market regulator is “scared to do its job” according to a leading campaigner who wants a price cap on household electricity and gas bills. John Penrose, a backbench Conservative MP, attacked Ofgem for only…
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