Deaths caused by living in cold homes this winter will go 'through the roof' as the energy price cap rises, National Energy Action boss Adam Scorer tells LBC. toryboypierce | adam_scorer
National Energy Action Chief Executive Adam Scorer has told LBC that the deaths of those living in cold homes this winter will go "through the roof" as the energy price cap rises., whilst MPs awoke to a £2,000 pay rise.
Today Ofgem raised the price cap of gas and electricity, seeing it soar by 54 per cent this morning to £1,971 for an average home to compared to £1,277 yesterday. Experts predict it will be around £2,700-a-year from October. The Chief Executive of National Energy Action told Andrew Pierce: "It's not about choices anymore. It's about not heating your home, it's about not heating water, it's about not buying warm clothes, it's about not doing all those things that we would regard as the basics of life.
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