Watch: Miliband blasted over energy bill ‘false promises’

Another day, another drama. This time Ed Miliband is in the firing line after his opposite number took aim at him in parliament on Thursday. Shadow net zero secretary Claire Coutinho pulled no punches as she attacked Labour’s Energy Secretary over his government’s controversial pensioner palaver, Sir Keir Starmer’s much-lauded GB Energy proposal and exactly how much money Labour policies will save the public.

Addressing Miliband in the Commons, Coutinho poured scorn over his party’s claims that GB Energy would save voters from paying an extra £300 a year on their energy bills. ‘They said that on their election literature, on their social media and in hustings,’ she nodded at the Energy Secretary, before going on:

But I listened very closely to his speech today and I didn’t hear him make a promise that GB Energy will save them £300 on their energy bills. The energy minister, in the debate just before the summer recess, wouldn’t repeat the promise either.