WARM HOMES FOR ALL: Tackling Britain's fuel poverty crisis
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Hello! This week we’re talking about the crisis of fuel poverty as people are hit by rocketing energy bills.
Torsten Bell from the Resolution Foundation sets the incoming energy bill rises in context, Adam Scorer from National Energy Action tells us how people are facing the crisis up and down the country, and Dr Elizabeth Blakelock shares some interesting solutions which have been trialled to help those most in need.
Plus Geoff drops a Wordle brag on Ed.
And here's the link to Gabrielle Shammash's article about UK Politics as breifly mentioned in the episode https://www.theindy.org/article/2578
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