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By: Jonathan Maxwell

Jonathan Maxwell is founder of Sustainable Development Capital LLP

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  • A blank cheque for two years of capped energy bills was a perverse kind of plan

    Jonathan maxwell

    It was always perverse to ask the taxpayer to write a blank cheque for two years as part of the energy support package and ignore the huge potential gains in increasing our energy efficiency. 

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