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SOLOMON HUGHES reports from Tory Party conference where E.ON and EDF were calling for government action to preserve their profits as thousands of customers struggle to pay their bills

THE chief executive of E.ON UK, one of the “Big Six” British energy firms, told Tory conference it was “imperative” the government step in this winter because people are “struggling to pay” for heating as “a section of our customers cannot pay their energy bill.” 

A UK director of EDF also told the same fringe meeting the government had to act as people are “struggling.”

It was a grim message, delivered to Treasury Minister Gareth Davies at a fringe meeting of the Thatcherite Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). 

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