The UK’s energy system is fattening state coffers – just not Britain’s | Frances O'Grady

The British public should enjoy the full benefit of the energy that is generated here, and help plan its future

• Frances O'Grady is general secretary of the TUC

Despite yesterday's mini-budget, nearly every family will face the winter with much higher bills than last year. The current government support to keep bills down is just a short-term sticking plaster. Liz Truss and her ministers have no long-term solution.

Clues to the answer we need lie in Munich, Germany, where a dad takes his daughter swimming in an Olympic-sized pool. And in Bergen, Norway, where a student receives her engineering degree without paying a penny in tuition fees. And on the windswept coast of Brittany, France, where a grandmother gets her energy bill, delighted to find it barely changed from last year - despite French companies facing surging wholesale prices for gas.

Frances O'Grady is general secretary of the TUC