Industry to push for measures to relieve huge rise in household bills amid soaring wholesale prices
The energy industry believes the crisis, which has seen more than 26 energy suppliers go bust at a cost of £1.8bn to date, could be made more manageable if the government axed the 5% VAT on bills imposed when the UK was part of the European Union.
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