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This is misinformation and deflection from an unelected PM who tells you he is ‘honest’ … er this isn’t honest. Ofgem itself says our bills include wholesale costs, NETWORK costs and GOVERNMENT POLICY costs (net zero bollocks) Your own Government admits gas still sets the UK electricity price most of the time. And what he completely leaves out is the enormous cost of the energy system successive governments have CHOSEN to build. Renewable subsidies funded by tax payers, Grid expansion where only the shareholders make profit, balancing costs because of Mad Ed and Constraint payments to tempt private investors into business plans that don’t work without tax payer subsidies. Oh and then there’s the £ BILLIONS of new infrastructure WE ALSO HAVE TO FUND. In fact, this year the Government moved 75% of the legacy Renewables Obligation OFF household electricity bills and onto the Exchequer, THE TAXPAYER NOW PAYS IT. And Clean Power 2030 requires around £40 BILLION of investment every year to 2030, while NESO is forecasting £3.2bn in constraint costs over just the next 12 months. So no, Britain does not have expensive electricity simply because we “privatised the basics”. We have an expensive, gas linked, heavily regulated energy system carrying enormous policy and infrastructure costs. Changing who owns the funding vehicle for the grid will not make those costs disappear. Calling it “public control” doesn’t make energy cheap, it just makes him much less honest.