THE chief executive of Bradford-based Manningham Housing Association has called on the Government to act now to protect the most vulnerable.

It comes as regulator Ofgem announced that the energy price cap would rise by 80 per cent to £3,549 from October. 

Lee Bloomfield said: “The cost-of-living crisis is already causing deep anxiety for people on the lowest incomes and this news will significantly increase that grave sense of worry.

“The country cannot wait for a new Prime Minister to take office and ease themselves into the job before deciding what remedial action may be taken.”

He said it is critically important that vulnerable people “are given an urgent guarantee that they will not be exposed to these catastrophic energy price rises”.

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