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Uproar as energy bills forecast to exceed £4,000 in January

Profit Energy companies must be publicly owned, campaigners and Socialist Labor MPs say annual energy costs of over £4,000 are devastating. requested today after experts predicted it would hit hard.

Consulting firm Cornwall Insight said a typical household across the UK could earn a staggering £4,266 a year from January as prices soared after Russia attacked Ukraine earlier this year. Said you may face gas and electricity bills like this.

Latest projections are up £650 against last week's estimate of , with the company of sharply increasing wholesale prices and Ofgem saying it will change energy price caps more frequently. 

Regulators argued that they could not make "robust" predictions at this stage, but Dr Craig Rowley of Cornwall said that "the new shock "It will only exacerbate concerns about rising fuel shortages."

The Liberal Democrats said ``to tackle the crisis'' after price comparison firm Uswitch revealed households already owed him £1.3bn to energy suppliers. He argued that a "wartime mindset" was necessary. 

Overall debt is triple what he was a year ago, with 6 million households owing an average of £206, even before the cold winter months arrive. It is said that there is  

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole Hamilton has told Westminster to impose a "meaningful windfall tax" on profitable energy companies and inflation. urged the energy bill to be "laid off" using - increased VAT receipts to cover the cost of maintaining the price cap at its current level.

Warm house discounts and winter fuel allowances should also be doubled by him, he added, saying, "Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures."

While the call fell short of nationalizing energy companies, Labor MP Kate Osborne argued that:

Jarrow's member added via tweet:

The campaign group We Own It has warned that human suffering will only get worse if it continues on this trajectory.

Director Cat Hobbs told Morning His Star newspaper: Look at countries like Norway and France. They are protecting the public, not a handful of shareholders.

``France has limited price increases to 4%, but here in the UK our price increases are over the limit. There's never been a worse time to run a .Instead, we need to build systems that work for people."

The Joseph Rauntree Foundation condemned the inaction. From Downing Street, which ruled out a new aid package for families in the final weeks of Boris Johnson's tenure. Winner of party leadership contest. Liz Truss said charity must initiate "rapid action commensurate with the scale of the coming emergency."

 Its chief Policy adviser Katie Schmucker said.

"Time to build CA. Call to fight back," the spokesperson tweeted.

The initiative is backed by rank and file workers, union leaders including RMT's Mick Lynch, and Labor MPs such as Zara Sultana, and has been open for 24 hours since its start on Monday, according to organizers. Acquired 150,000 members within.

Communications Workers' Union representative Dave Ward also endorsed the campaign, but anyone shocked by its popularity "must be living under a rock."

"Enough. A war against today's workers will turn into a confrontation with every pissing boss, parasite landlord and corrupt politician in this country."