Starmer’s ‘five-point plan’ was not a plan | Nils Pratley

Two of the points were measures on energy bills from the autumn budget, another restated the existing energy strategy “We have a five-point plan for the immediate crisis,” declared the prime minister during his remarks from Downing Street on Wednesday . Really? Two of his five points were measures on energy bills that pre-date the Iran war. One was a description of support for a sub-set of consumers but dodged the key question of who else could get help. Another stated the government’s longstanding energy strategy in unchanged terms. The last was a diplomatic policy, presumably shoe-horned into the cost-of-living passage because a five-point plan sounds better than a four-point one. Let’s take them in order. First: “We’re cutting energy bills by over £100 per household today.” That, very obviously, is not a response to “the immediate crisis.” Continue reading...

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