MINISTERS were urged to “immediately” bring Britain’s six biggest energy companies into public ownership and reverse cuts to the winter fuel allowance at Usdaw’s annual conference today.

Labour needs to win back the trust of working-class communities following its rout to Reform UK in last week’s local elections, delegates heard.

Chants of “no” were heard at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens as they hit out at profiteering by energy giants during the cost-of-living crisis.