Tory rivals under growing pressure to freeze energy price cap

The Conservative leadership candidates came under growing pressure on Sunday to detail plans to tackle soaring energy bills, with increasing calls to find a way to freeze the amount households pay.

Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour party, and some of the UK’s largest energy providers have put forward separate plans to cap the typical household bill below £2,000, as concerns grow that runaway gas and electricity…