British Gas, OVO, EDF, EON, Octopus customers will lose £470 after 'broken promise'

Labour's 'broken promises' on energy prices will cost households an extra £470, it has been warned. Clare Haughey made the comments after Ofgem have confirmed that household British Gas, OVO, EDF, EON and Octopus energy bills will rise again in January due to the Ofgem price cap.

The MSP pointed to Labour’s general election campaign, when Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour Party leader, promised a UK Labour Government would “tackle the root causes of the cost-of-living crisis, and help families save up to £300 off their energy bills”.

Ms Haughey accused Labour of “broken promises”and The First Minister John Swinney agreed that people must be “stunned” that they are seeing a second increase in their bills, having been promised a reduction by Labour - adding that it is “a very serious situation that pensioners in particular are facing”.

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Ms Haughey MSP said: “Residents in Rutherglen and Cambuslang will remember Labour leaflets sailing through their letterboxes this summer, promising a £300 reduction in energy bills. But recently their MP, Mr Shanks, sat in a Westminster committee and furiously backpedalled, saying Labour ‘made no pledge’ to reduce bills ‘in 100 days, a year, or two years’.

“Those same residents are now faced with a £470 price rise, never mind any sort of reduction. They will be rightly asking the UK Labour Government if and when this election pledge is ever going to happen, and feeling incredibly let down.

“The UK Government must publish a clear timetable now - or admit if it’s destined to be yet another broken promise from the Labour Party.” Michael Shanks MP said: “Only Labour has a credible plan to bring down bills with our clean power by 2030 mission. This will reduce our reliance on volatile fossil fuels and make sure people don’t ever again experience the price spikes we did in recent years.

“Key to that is Great British Energy, the first publicly owned energy company in 70 years, headquartered in Scotland. SNP MPs couldn’t be bothered to turn up and vote for that but now want all the benefits it will bring. Instead of investing the proceeds from the renewable energy development in Scotland for the future, the SNP have instead had to use more than half a billion pounds to plug gaps in their day-to-day spending.

"Perhaps the SNP should look a little closer to home before blaming a government that has had five months to turn around 14 years of chaos and neglect”.