The data was hailed by prime minister Rishi Sunak, who said halving inflation was his number one priority. The drop in energy prices over the past year led to the smallest increase in the cost of living since February 2022. The UK’s annual inflation rate fell sharply to 6.8% in July, from 7.9% in June. It’s the Tories that have put us in this situation.” She told listeners of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme “The Tories crashed the economy, they haven’t provided us with an economy that has been growing, we’ve had a decade of low growth, low pay and high taxes. Some energy firms list credits from the government specifically as a line item in bills.Įarlier today Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, called today’s fall in inflation a “relief”, but said “we didn’t have to be here”. Does he expect the public to give the Conservative party a pat on the back for crashing the economy and adding hundreds of pounds a month to people’s mortgages? He just does not get it.” PA Media reports that the Cabinet Office spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, Christine Jardine, said: “Sunak’s comments are woefully out of touch. “Now you wouldn’t have quite seen that because you would have still just got your energy bill, it would have been very high and you’d have been: ‘Oh my gosh, what’s going on?’ but what you wouldn’t have realised, maybe, is that before that even happened, £1,500 had been lopped off, and the government had covered it.” The Liberal Democrats have accused prime minister Rishi Sunak of being “woefully out of touch” after he appeared to claim that people do not understand the level of support being given to them on energy bills.Īccording to the BBC, Sunak told a business event in Leicestershire: “A typical family will have had about half their energy bills paid for by the government over the past several months – that’s worth £1,500 to a typical family. 15.41 BST Lib Dems say Sunak 'woefully out of touch' after he appears to say people don't understand their energy bills
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