Watching Energy Secretary Ed Davey yesterday in the Commons was like observing a particularly dodgy sales pitch on the Shopping Channel.
“Buy our energy policy and you will get £50 off!” shouted Ed (I paraphrase), wearing a salesman’s suit and sweating a bit too much. Ed gave us a huge amount of detail about green deals and warm fronts and it never was clear, amid the sea of detail, how much of that £50 saved on the bills would end up on our taxes. But it was what he didn’t tell us that we really needed to know.
The Shadow Energy Secretary, Caroline Flint, is having a moment these days. Yesterday she was on good form, though she was wearing a dress with so many