Rebecca Long- Bailey response to energy price cap

Rebecca
Long- Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial
Strategy,
responding to Theresa May’s re-announcement of an energy price cap, said:

 ‘Today,
after pressure from Labour and her own backbenches, Theresa May has finally
been forced to recognise that  the energy market is broken. But her
response doesn’t go nearly far enough.

 “It is
unclear if responsibility for action has again been passed to OfGem, with no
commitment on when or how action will be taken. Yet again the country is left
confused about whether the Prime Minister will honour her election promise.

 “Labour
has been clear that we would introduce a clear emergency price cap whilst
taking the bold measures needed to reform our broken energy market in the long
run such as bringing energy back into public ownership.”