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Refusing to nationalise energy firms is a major departure from the leadership of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.

“This is what bandit capitalism looks like. Ordinary people are going to pay the price in rising costs and fuel poverty while these directors apparently get to walk away wealthy. " 

The Business Secretary admitted families this winter would have to choose between eating and heating their homes.

Wholesale gas prices have registered a 250 per cent increase since Brexit - threatening consumers' pockets despite pre-referendum promises that "fuel bills will be lower for everyone".

Claims made by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove a month before the 2016 EU referendum that gas bills will be cheaper if Brits back Brexit resurfaced as UK is currently facing massive gas price hikes. 

A draft law in the Scottish Parliament was amended after the Queen’s lawyers raised “concerns”, with the changes exempting her land from measures to encourage greener energy.

“So while it might be a little bit more of an effort to remember to turn things off at the plug and not leave them on standby, if everyone did it, we would see a real difference.”

It also emerged 26 per cent of adults routinely leave the heating on when there is no one at home.

The average price of bills for some customers could rise by up to £190 a year.