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Profiteers hit skint families the hardest
Big 6 have DOUBLED profit margins in a year

HARD-UP families have been hit hardest by energy profiteers who raised household bills despite cutting costs, Labour revealed yesterday.

Average electricity and gas bills have ballooned by £260 since the Tories took power in 2010, according to House of Commons figures.

They show that Britain’s privatised energy scam has seen bills for the poorest 10 per cent of families rise twice as fast as for other households.

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