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10%? More like 50% if you define fuel poverty as spending more than a quarter of your income on heating and electricity.
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Depends how you define it. I was quoting End Fuel Poverty’s statistics and, tbf, they do have quite a narrow definition of what fuel poverty is.
According to them, it’s gotta take you below the poverty line. But I do agree with you that the number of people who are gonna really feel it is much higher than 10%, me included.
On that note, is anyone signed up for Don’t Pay UK?
returnofthestaff
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.