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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. 

    Chancellor Jeremy Hunt could be set to lose his seat amid a historic night for Labour, according to the exit poll.

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