Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that if he becomes Prime Minister,more utilities will be sent to vulnerable households to help. 100 pounds," he said.
His comment was that Leader's rival Liz Truss refused to make direct payments to the hardest hit, and planned emergency budgets were instead reduced to tax cuts. Served hours after claiming to focus.
Before an audience of Conservative activists in Darlington on Tuesday Ahead of Hastings' latest clash with the Truss, Mr Sunak said the Foreign Secretary's plan He said it would do nothing for pensioners and low-income earners. Income groups expected to be hit hardest by rising gas and electricity prices.
Mr Sunak declined to explain exactly how he would add to the support package he previously announced in May, worth £1,200 each for the most vulnerable households.
17}But when asked if it would be "hundreds of pounds more", he told ITV News: I want to make sure the people I care about most, pensioners and low-income families, get the help they need.
"I always want to make sure these families, especially those with pensions and low income, feel safe.
"And what worries me is , as I said, Liz Truss' plan on taxes is not going to help those people."
The former Prime Minister said in May that all announced a £400 reduction in costs, with means-tested households receiving an additional £650 and persons with disabilities an additional £150.
But anti-poverty campaigners say his £15 billion package, which was drawn up when energy price caps were expected to hit £2,800 in October is £3,500 this fall and over £4,000 this spring.
Mr Sunak said he was "confident" that the necessary funding would come from the government's waste savings.
Ms Truss today refused immediate help for skyrocketing energy prices amid calls for an emergency budget.
Asked repeatedly in a television interview whether to rule out direct payments to households worst hit by inflation, the foreign secretary did not deny the claim, instead focusing on tax cuts.
And she resisted calls from former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the CBI to join Sunak and Boris Johnson in immediately agreeing to a package of aid. “We will not create a budget,” he said. In advance.
Sunak supporter Dominic Raab warned today that Mr Truss' tax cut plan would be "electoral suicide" for the Conservative Party. winter.
Truss supporters earlier this week opposed a refusal of a "subsidy" that suggested she would provide some support if she was elected Conservative leader on 5 September. seemed to be
But when she was asked during her visit to Huddersfield today whether that meant more direct payments of the kind Mr Sunak offered earlier this year, she gave signs in favor of the approach. did not show
"What I'm doing is saving people money on fuel by reducing the taxes people pay and suspending the green her energy surcharge," she said. I was.
``I'm not going to write a budget in advance. I am committed to growing the economy.
"What I am clear about is that we are going to cut taxes from day one...the point is to grow the economy. You can't grow an economy with top tax rates for 70 years, and I am determined to change that.
"I am determined to challenge orthodoxy. And I'm determined to do something different, but I'm not going to write a budget in advance.'
warned that abolishing the green tax would save each household an average of £150, while low-income households could save less than £200 a year. It is time for consumers to raise the energy price cap from £1,971 for her to £3,500 for her in October and £4,000 for him in January.