We are demanding that the government funds a national effort to help upgrade everyone’s home – through better insulation and new heating systems – street by street, town by town, so that we aren’t facing the same crisis in future. This is the cheapest and quickest way to lower all our bills, by permanently stopping waste, but many of us – because of the upfront cost or we’re in social or rented housing – need the government to help.

We are demanding that the government stops opening up new oil and gas fields – and stops subsidising new drilling with public money – because it keeps us locked into an unaffordable energy for far longer than necessary. The government has admitted that more North Sea gas won’t lower our energy bills: the gas doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to companies who sell it at the highest price they can get. The government needs to free us by stopping new drilling and putting its efforts into building a cheaper energy supply.