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Millions of Britons have faced impossible choices in recent months as the cost-of-living crisis has worsened, with 5.6 million people, or 11%, having gone without food because of the rising cost of living as energy and food prices soar, the Money Advice Trust charity said in a new report on …

Economists are warning prime minister Liz Truss’s decision to freeze energy bills for everyone in the UK at £2,500 raises the risk of blackouts. Experts at the economic think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said energy supplies may run dry due to the government propping up energy spending. …

Liz Truss, the Conservative candidate who won the race to be the UK’s next prime minister, has been considering plans in recent days to spend $150 billion (£130 billion) over the next year and a half to freeze household energy bills at their current levels, officials and advisers to Truss …