PROTESTERS will head to Parliament on Friday to condemn the obscenity of increasing fuel poverty deaths in one of the world’s wealthiest countries. 

Fuel Poverty Action and the National Pensioners' Convention have called a mass protest to demand that ministers address the issue. 

Official figures show that in 2019-2020 there were 28,300 excess winter deaths in England and Wales, up almost 20 per cent compared with the previous winter. Of those, 8,500 were estimated to have been caused by cold homes.