{"id":513066,"date":"2022-08-10T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T04:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=513066"},"modified":"2022-08-10T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T06:03:58","slug":"rishi-sunak-promises-more-support-in-uk-energy-crisis-if-elected-as-uk-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rishi-sunak-promises-more-support-in-uk-energy-crisis-if-elected-as-uk-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak promises more support in UK energy crisis if elected as UK PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Tuesday promised to provide more money to help people cope with soaring household energy bills if he is elected Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister next month.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old Indian-origin finalist in the Conservative Party leadership election pledged government &#8220;efficiency savings&#8221; to fund the support, while limiting borrowing. His pledge came as energy consultancy Cornwall Insight issued a forecast to say that household heating bills are expected to rise even further this winter than previously predicted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no doubt in my mind that more support will be needed,&#8221; Sunak said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as we know how much bills will go up by, I will act,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Tuesday promised to provide more money to help people cope with soaring household energy bills if he is elected Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister next month. The 42-year-old Indian-origin finalist in the Conservative Party leadership election pledged government &#8220;efficiency savings&#8221; to fund the support, while limiting borrowing. His pledge came as energy consultancy Cornwall Insight issued a forecast to say that household heating bills are expected to rise even further this winter than previously predicted. &#8220;There is no doubt in my mind that more support will be needed,&#8221; Sunak said. &#8220;As soon as we know how much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513066","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}