from the prime minister later today. we ve heard a statement that s been released from the chancellor, where nadhim zahawi acknowledges this price cap will be causing stress and anxiety for many. and that perhaps would cause many to question why we are not hearing from government ministers if he s acknowledging that situation. he does say there will be support from a future government, not the current one, but once a new prime minister takes over, and he s working flat out to develop options for the next prime minister. there has been a lot of political reaction to this, of course we ve heard from the first minister of scotland nicola sturgeon saying this rise can t be allowed to go ahead, it must be cancelled. the snp want mps brought back to westminster from their recess to debate the issue. the lib dems, of course, have called for an extension of the windfall tax on energy companies, to cancel out this october rise in the price cap. and that s something labour have been calling fo
volatile and going up drastically and we expect that to convert into customer prices as well. so and we expect that to convert into customer prices as well. customer prices as well. so what sort of action customer prices as well. so what sort of action is customer prices as well. so what sort of action is the customer prices as well. so what sort of action is the german - sort of action is the german government looking at? the german government government looking at? the german government is government looking at? the german government is now government looking at? the german government is now introducing - government looking at? the german government is now introducing a - government looking at? the german| government is now introducing a new tax, a levy on consumers with about 2 cents per kilowatt hour. so this is a huge amount of money and average family would pay roughly 500 euros a day at the end of the year. so this is quite a drastic increase for customers. but t
we would only be delivering in the afternoon. the real threat of driving us all towards part time jobs in terms of delivery. different terms and conditions for new entrants. all our members on annualised hours. all our members being forced to work across a seven day week rather than the agreements we have been talking about. so a massive imposition, proposals that they know this union won t accept, but for some reason i think p&o inspired the employer has suddenly turned. the relationship was absolutely fine up untiljanuary. they disengaged in january till april and they ve come back with totally unacceptable issues. but on pay, they ve imposed on a workforce that was responsible for a £1 billion turnaround in this company during the pandemic and working through the pandemic, they ve only imposed a 2% pay rise. you have been talking about all the different issues with inflation and energy prices, and it s nowhere near enough and it s totally disrespectful to a workforce that shoul
presidential ambitions, as donald trump does. let s get more reaction now to the our main story that millions of households in england, scotland and wales are set to pay much more for gas and electricity from october, after the energy regulator ofgem announced a rise in the price cap to £3,519 a year an increase of more than 80%. i m joined now by the founder of the energy price comparison service energyshop.com, joe malinowksi. thanks for your time today. every time i read out the figure of an increase of more than 80%, it is just astonishing and understandably people are saying they are worrying themselves sick as to how they are going to cope with this. going to cope with this. yeah, absolutely- going to cope with this. yeah, absolutely. 80% going to cope with this. yeah, absolutely. 80% as going to cope with this. yeah, absolutely. 80% as a - going to cope with this. yeah, absolutely. 80% as a headline going to cope with this. yeah, - absolutely. 80% as a headline number