economic crisis? plus, when working from home is just too expensive could soaring energy bills drive a mass return to the office for the first time since the pandemic? hello. we start with the cost of living crisis here in britain because the boss of one of the uk s top energy suppliers has told the bbc the government must act now to protect customers from soaring bills or face catastrophe this winter. ovo energy ceo stephen fitzpatrick has been talking to our business editor simonjack about their own ideas for supporting households. he said it felt like the past 12 months had been wasted despite the scale of the crisis becoming increasingly apparent. and he called on the uk s new prime minister to take action as soon as they are appointed next week. if we don t start working on this first thing on monday when we have a new government, a new prime minister this has to be the first order of business. and if we don t use every available moment over the next 12 weeks
why have politicians failed to grasp the nettle on this? i hope that it s because they are trying to speak to their grassroots here and they are just trying. liz truss and rishi sunak ijust trying to appeal to the very sort of small and tight demographic that are voting for them in the prime ministerial election and that, come next week, they will actually start working to try to deliver solutions to the crisis we are facing because it really is a crisis. i spoke to the company yesterday, they have a lot of franchisees who run shops and they are facing very high energy costs but at the same time they are saying the same time they are saying the worst thing is the uncertainty we have about what is going to happen, so it makes it very hard to budget, very high for us all to think with any optimism about the next few months. , ., ., ~