Huge UK energy bills would cause some to ‘starve or freeze’, Martin Lewis warns

MoneySavingExpert founder calls on Sunak to act, saying extreme poverty produces civil unrest

Some of the poorest people in the UK will simply starve or freeze", as a result of rocketing energy prices, consumer expert Martin Lewis has warned, as he urged Rishi Sunak to take action in his spring statement.

Lewis said energy bills for an average household, already set to rise to 1,971 in April, could hit 3,000 in October, when the regulator Ofgem next sets the price cap. That's my conservative guess: not the worst case," he said.