Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer will seek to make energy costs an electoral dividing line as household bills fall to their lowest in two years.
On Friday the energy regulator reduced the energy price cap by £122 to £1,568 a year after a significant fall in global prices, which the Conservatives will try to seize on.
The Tories will seek to make Labour’s net zero policies a key electoral distinction as Sunak accuses Labour of failing to be honest about the “significant costs” that its net zero policies will impose on households.
Starmer hit back and said that bills were still £400 higher than before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and had risen by more than in other European countries. He accused the Conservatives