Magistrates ‘asked to stop jailing criminals’ for several weeks to ease pressure on prisons – UK politics live

The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, acknowledged the rise in the price cap will worry lots of people across the country. He blamed the cap increase in the “toxic legacy” of the Conservative governments over the last 14 years, which he said failed to “secure” the UK’s energy system, instead leaving it at the “mercy” of international markets “controlled by…