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Government need to do to make that work? ~ . , . , , work? i think a price cap freeze is a universal work? i think a price cap freeze is a universal support work? i think a price cap freeze is a universal support and work? i think a price cap freeze is a universal support and it - work? i think a price cap freeze is a universal support and it would l a universal support and it would help income earners across the income spectrum. but what it also does is give you time to build in a more targeted approach. you really need a combination of both, you need that initial short spurt of support for everybody and then a more targeted approach when you can look at having more targeted approach to discounting tariffs, through having basic energy allowances for the minimum or low incomes, fundamentally you also need to be increasing the level of insulation and low carbon heating in our homes because fundamentally we are addicted to gas in this country and the price crisis is primarily cause ....
But unfortunately that s not happened. and people are getting worried and stressed about their own set of circumstances, aren t they? that was michelle berry talking to me a little earlier. joshua emden is from the centre left think tank the institute for public policy research. he gave me his thoughts on what support should be offered. i think the government understands that there is a crisis, but at the moment, its response is in no way proportional to the scale of the crisis, and what we ve been looking at is proposing, instead of the support that is being discussed in loose terms at the moment, we ve been proposing a price cap freeze at the current price cap level to make sure that people do not face these astronomic costs that are coming in october. it would make sure that 4 million homes, for example, don t end up paying a third of their income on energy bills, which clearly is totally unsustainable. but it s worth saying as well that people are already struggling under the curre ....
Pounds will be affected is how target or not will any support package will be. irish rsh said today that the government must rishi sunak, must help where ve a focus on lower incomes and pence any nearness, liz truss said she is in favour of more targeted support. labour and the other opposition parties wan angie price cap freeze, critics of that in government have said this would mean that the richer households are helped out by this, but today, the labour mp darren jones defended this approach, saying the problem is it is hard to target people who aren t on welfare but may also need support, so this posed a big question for whoever next occupies number ten about whether they decide to help everybody so they decide to help everybody so they can help notjust those on welfare and the most vulnerable but those kind of middle earners that the chancellor is talking about. thank you. police in liverpool are questioning a second man in connection with the death of nine year old 0livia p ....