‘Disgusting!’ BBC’s Sophie Raworth blasted for Rachel Reeves ‘hatchet job!’

“A failure to get on with the investment in nuclear hydrogen and renewables, a decision to get rid of our gas storage facilities and a failure to regulate the market properly.

“That’s why Labour are setting out a packet of measures today to help people with their bills now but also to properly reform this market, so never again are we in his position.”

Raworth asked: “One of those measures is, as you have already spoken of, dropping the five per cent VAT on fuel bills, a blunt tool as the Prime Minister says.”

Ms Reeves began to explain: “Well, the Prime Minister, of course, was the biggest advocate of cutting VAT on gas and electricity bills when he was campaigning…”