‘Unacceptable’ that people facing ‘enormous spike’ in costs due to Iran war, says Polanski – UK politics live
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<p>Green leader gives his first major speech on the economy</p><p><strong>Polanski</strong> says the government should be doing more to improve home insulation, and on the drive towards renewable energy.</p><p>And he says the government should commit to ensuring energy bills do not rise above the April-June price cap.</p><p>The government should guarantee right now that it will not allow energy bills to rise beyond the April-June price cap –
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06.49 EDT Polanski says it is 'unacceptable' that people will face 'enormous spike' in costs due to Iran war Polanski is speaking now. He starts by talking about the Iran war, describing it as a war of choice. This was not a war of self-defence, there was no imminent threat. Negotiations were ongoing. It was, as the BBC’s international editor said, a war of choice. People across the Middle East are terrified of what Trump and Netanyanhu’s war will mean for them and their loved ones. And the repercussions are echoing across the world as instability spreads and oil prices spike. He says ordinary people will pay the price for this. People are already struggling so hard just to make ends meet. People feel like they’re running every day just to stay in the same place. The idea that yet again – for the second time in just a few years – that we are going to have to deal with another enormous spike in the cost of the basics is unacceptable. It’s unacceptable because we didn’t need to be here. It’s unforgivable that just four years after we last saw an energy price shock, that one triggered by Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, far too little has been done to protect this country, its people, and its economy – from the impact of yet another energy price shock.
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