The new British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, appointed this Tuesday, rejected this Wednesday an extraordinary tax on the profits of energy companies defended by the opposition to finance the plan that she will present on Thursday.
“I understand that the people of our country are suffering from the cost of living and energy bills. And that is why I, as prime minister, will take immediate action to help the people,” he said.
However, he added, the solution could not be a “band-aid” and said it was necessary to increase energy supply in the long term by increasing natural gas production in the North Sea off Scotland and opening more nuclear plants.
“The reality is that this country cannot grow with more taxes. The way to grow our economy is to attract investment, keep taxes low, make reforms to build projects faster. That’s the way to create jobs and opportunities across our country. “, she defended.
The leader of the Labor Party, Keir Starmer, has again argued that the energy price freeze should be financed with an extraordinary tax on companies in the sector, whose profits are estimated at 170,000 million pounds (200,000 million euros).
“The prime minister knows she has no choice but to freeze energy prices, but it won’t be cheap, and the real choice, the political choice, is who will pay.”
According to the leader of the main opposition party, Truss “knows that every extra pound of earnings he chooses not to tax is an extra pound of debt. [público] that workers will be forced to pay for decades.
“She is the fourth ‘tory’ prime minister in six years. The face above may change, but the story remains the same,” Starmer lamented, to which Truss replied: “There is nothing new in a Labor leader who asks for more tax hikes.”
The debate, as part of the House of Commons’ weekly question session, was the first since Truss took office on Tuesday, replacing Boris Johnson.
The prime minister has started the day with a meeting of the council of ministers and is scheduled to speak again in parliament on Thursday to, according to the British press, announce the freezing of energy prices, a plan that will cost around 150,000 million pounds (173,000 million euros).
Source: TSF
