Conservative response to Prime Minister heating oil U-turn

Claire Coutinho MP, Shadow Energy Secretary, said:

“This support will be welcome for rural households who have been ripped off by rogue heating oil suppliers - but the Government must go further and cut everyone's electricity bills by 20 per cent through the Conservatives' Cheap Power Plan.

“The uncomfortable truth is that this scheme will be funded by Labour's tax rises on working people - tax hikes that wouldn't be necessary if Ed Miliband hadn't chosen to leave £25 billion worth of tax revenue in the ground by shutting down the North Sea.”