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Given that Liz Truss is pretty much the definition of a weather vane, this could work. If (and it's probably a pretty big if) Labour can create enough pressure around this then the Tories will likely enact a watered-down version. It's nowhere near enough, but a lot better than 10% of the population being in fuel poverty in a couple of months' time.
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This policy isn't going to be enacted
Indeed - and that's the fundamental privilege of opposition that Starmer needs to remember he can use! Sometimes he seems so pre-occupied with looking like a "party of government" (whatever that means) that he leaves open goals.
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Criticism seems to be 'this is a short term plan to get us through the next six months, not a long term plan to get us through the next six years'.
Which is true as far as it goes but that's a bit like slagging off an orange for not being an apple. It's not meant to be an apple. It's an orange. This policy isn't going to be enacted - Starmer is the leader of the opposition - but to show that it is possible to have a solution, but the Tories have so far declined to bother with one. It's a 'pressure the Tories' policy not a 'this is what we'd do as a party of government' policy. It's working too:
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1559072038018600963