Should our five biggest energy firms be nationalised?
Green Party of England and Wales co-leader Carla Denyer said: "We are seeing nationwide anxiety about the prospect of unpayable energy bills this winter.
"This experiment with an energy supply market has failed. Only the government can intervene at the scale required to avoid a catastrophe this winter."The party wants the big five energy supply companies - British Gas, EDF Energy, E.ON Next, OVO and Scottish Power - to be nationalised, as also proposed by the Trades Union Congress .
The TUC, in its plan for nationalisation, has estimated the cost of buying out the companies' current shareholdersSir Keir has ruled out nationalisation, arguing that compensating shareholders would be a waste of public money, and it would not bring inflation down, as he claims his plan would., Gordon Brown called on Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, who are vying to be the next prime minister, to halt further increases in the price cap.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have both rejected nationalisation, as well as Sir Keir Starmer's plan to freeze energy prices.
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