More energy bill help coming for Brits – but households will have to wait ‘a couple of weeks’, education minister says
MORE energy bill help is coming for Brits - but households will have to wait “a couple of weeks”, an education minister has revealed.
It comes as the cost of living for the entire UK has skyrocketed in recent months - and is set to get worse.
Hundreds of thousands of people are struggling to pay their energy bills - but now it’s been revealed the Government will soon put in place a “further package of support measures”.
Will Quince told Tom Swarbrick on LBC radio: “There is no question in my mind whatsoever.
"By both listening to the two leadership candidates but also just looking at our economy, and also the challenges that people and businesses are facing up and down this country driven by Putin’s barbaric invasion and occupation of Ukraine, that the Government is going to act and put in place a further package of support measures.
“Now, we will have to wait a couple of weeks for a new prime minister to set out their agenda alongside a new chancellor, but both leadership contenders have been clear there will be a fiscal event and more help will be coming.”
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Meanwhile Shadow education minister Stephen Morgan has said he is "deeply worried" about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on schools.
On suggestions that schools may only be able to open three days a week because they cannot afford energy bills, Mr Morgan told Sky News: "Well, I think the best place for children to be is in school, and I'm deeply worried about the impact the cost-of-living crisis is having on our schools.
"We know from research I've commissioned that energy bills in schools are at least doubling, in some cases tripling.
"And, again, the Government have no answers on this and the impact that will be on children's lives."
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It comes after Boris Johnson said British households must endure higher energy bills to face down Russia as Ukraine is "paying in blood" amid the horror invasion.
The outgoing Prime Minister made the comments yesterday following a surprise morale-boosting visit as Ukrainians celebrated their independence from Russia.
Mr Johnson made a third and final secret trip as PM to see President Volodymyr Zelensky and said: “If we’re paying in our energy bills for the evils of Vladimir Putin, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood.
"What happens in Ukraine matters to us all. That is why I am in Kyiv today.
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"That is why the UK will continue to stand with our Ukrainian friends.
"I believe Ukraine will win this war.”