The only easy decision for Bulb’s future: stop paying its CEO

Failed energy firm poses political puzzle for business secretary with wholesale markets still in turmoil

• UK government defends bonuses paid to staff of collapsed firm Bulb

Five months after special administrators were appointed at Bulb in an act of quasi-nationalisation, the government is discovering a few truths that should have been obvious on day one.

There isn't a long queue of would-be buyers willing to pay good money for a failed energy supplier with 1.7 million customers when wholesale markets are still in turmoil. Taxpayers' financial exposure is only increasing with every passing month.