BORIS Johnson is under fresh pressure to scrap green levies on energy bills – after Germany axed them to help struggling families.
Tory MPs said the PM should follow Berlin’s lead and ditch renewables taxes on electricity, saving Brits hundreds of pounds a year.
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Households up and down the country are facing spiralling costs which are only set to get worse because of the crisis in Ukraine.
Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck, who is a Green, yesterday announced it’s responding by scaling back environmental taxes.
Tory MP Craig Mackinlay, who heads the Net Zero Scrutiny Group of backbenchers, said the UK should swiftly follow suit.
He told The Sun: “It is pure common sense on the part of the German Economics Minister to announce the scrapping of environmental levies on domestic fuel bills as costs to consumers escalate on the back of the Ukraine crisis.
“We should do the same to deliver a significant reduction here in the UK as it is a cost lever that is in the absolute control of the government.”
Fellow Conservative MP Steve Baker added: “I am astonished to find that on this at least we should follow where a German Green has led.
“It’s time to get real about energy and the cost of living by scrapping these levies on bills.”
Green levies currently make up a whopping quarter of electricity bills, putting a massive squeeze on family finances.
The average home spends more than £750 a year on spark of which almost £200 goes towards environmental projects.
Ministers have said they’ll look at switching eco taxes from leccy onto gas once the energy crisis is over.
They’re also giving millions of Brits £200 off their energy bills this year and a further £150 off council tax.
Britain and Germany both generate just under 45% of energy supply from renewable sources like wind.
But Berlin is facing a bigger problem than us because it’s so reliant on Russian gas which could be cut off over Ukraine.
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