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Boris Johnson has made another intervention in the cost of living crisis debate.

James, just bring us up to date with what the Prime Minister has been saying.

Boris Johnson has said today that there will be more financial support ahead of October and January.

Those are the next two times that the energy price cap is expected to rise.

In some ways, I think this is a statement of the obvious.

When you look at the size of the increases that are coming down the track,

it is impossible to imagine that the government could not offer more support to people to help deal with them.

But I think the fact he is saying it now and this refer, I think, shows that the government are concerned.

Even this outgoing government are concerned that they are getting criticized for potentially giving the impression that there might not be more support

than there will obviously need to be.

So while he is not announcing the specifics, I think what he is trying to say is there will be more support.

Now, that will obviously beg the question of what is that support going to be.

I think we will probably have to wait until Offgem announced precisely how much the cap goes up by October on August 26,

which is two weeks away today, before we get start getting specifics from the candidates.

But I think it is interesting that you are beginning to see the outlines of a plan from within government and also from the candidates.

It is quite clear now that there is going to have to be more direct targeted support come October and then again come January.

And I think that January point is important because one of the things that we are seeing here is that with the price cap expected to carry on rising

and energy bills expect to remain at a very elevated level for at least the next year.

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