It’s cold outside | Sky announces £1,000 winter payment for 70% of its UK and Irish staff

Unlike her predecessor, new British PM Liz Truss has come in strong with a price cap on energy tariffs for all households – now capped at £2,500 annually, for the next two years.

The cap is not on energy companies’ tariff increases, it must be noted – it just means that the Government will pay any remaining shortfall. This still puts a monthly energy bill at £208 per month for every household: still prohibitively high, and likely to cripple those on the national minimum wage or who work part-time.