Will she implement the Opposition's suggestions? It would be a good way to gain popularity with the UK electorate.
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Liz Truss looks at energy price freeze to tackle spiralling bills
Foreign secretary expected to be named UK’s new prime minister later on Monday
Liz Truss, who is expected to be named as Britain’s next prime minister on Monday, is considering freezing energy bills in response to the spiralling cost to households.
Energy industry executives have been talking to members of Truss’s camp in recent weeks about ways to freeze energy bills for at least the most vulnerable households.
Truss’s team declined to comment on growing expectations in the energy sector that a freeze is being prepared following the talks. Labour and the Liberal Democrats have already proposed that bills should be capped.
“We are not commenting on speculation,” a spokesperson for the Truss campaign said. “We are not ruling anything in or out.”
Last month Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, and Gordon Brown, the former Labour prime minister, called for the energy price cap to be frozen at its current level and released plans explaining how this could be funded.
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