Autumn Budget: More than 50 MPs and charities urge Chancellor to cut electricity costs

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a Budget scene setter speech at No 9 Downing Street - Credit: Kirsty O'Connor / Treasury
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a Budget scene setter speech at No 9 Downing Street - Credit: Kirsty O'Connor / Treasury

Signatories back open letter calling on Chancellor to move social and environmental levies off electricity bills and into general taxation

A cross-party group of more than 50 MPs, MSPs, peers, and charities have signed a joint letter urging Chancellor Rachel Reeves to cut electricity costs by moving social and environmental levies off electricity...

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