Prime minister risks leading households to believe that they do not need to limit energy usage

Liz Truss has faced calls to correct publicly her comment that households will not have to pay more than £2,500 for their energy bills this year after government intervention.

It is less than a month since she announced the energy price guarantee, designed to insulate Britons from the worst of the energy crisis caused by rising wholesale gas prices. However, Truss has already created confusion about her own policy. Here, we unpick the situation.

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