{"id":5890,"date":"2022-08-12T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/12\/energy-bills-james-cleverly-on-help-for-poorer-and-vulnerable-people\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:33:58","slug":"energy-bills-james-cleverly-on-help-for-poorer-and-vulnerable-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=5890","title":{"rendered":"Energy bills: James Cleverly on help for poorer and vulnerable people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">James Cleverly says the UK had the highest tax burden for 70 years under Rishi Sunak as chancellor, and higher than competitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The education secretary, who backs Liz Truss for the Tory leadership, was asked by Simon Jack on BBC Radio 4 what help Truss would give to pensioners and others who do not pay tax and were struggling with rising energy bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Cleverly said the UK needed to make itself more competitive to attract companies to invest in \u201clonger-term sustainable cheaper sources of energy generation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But he would not be drawn on whether Truss would cut windfall taxes on energy firms in her planned emergency budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/uk-62490504\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Live: Energy boss: People need more support to pay soaring bills<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-62493496?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] James Cleverly says the UK had the highest tax burden for 70 years under Rishi Sunak as chancellor, and higher than competitors. The education secretary, who backs Liz Truss &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}