{"id":437270,"date":"2021-09-21T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T06:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=437270"},"modified":"2021-09-21T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T06:27:25","slug":"uk-government-holds-emergency-meeting-over-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-government-holds-emergency-meeting-over-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government holds emergency meeting over gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: The UK government held an emergency meeting with energy and consumer groups on Monday as the country experiences record gas prices that threaten households with huge bills and suppliers&#8217; futures.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to reassure over the prospect of consumers being hit by surging power bills this coming winter and the possibility of more small British energy firms collapsing from higher costs.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with a fast-moving situation, Britain&#8217;s Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was holding a roundtable with the energy industry and consumer groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: The UK government held an emergency meeting with energy and consumer groups on Monday as the country experiences record gas prices that threaten households with huge bills and suppliers&#8217; futures. Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to reassure over the prospect of consumers being hit by surging power bills this coming winter and the possibility of more small British energy firms collapsing from higher costs. Faced with a fast-moving situation, Britain&#8217;s Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was holding a roundtable with the energy industry and consumer groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}