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Shadow Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins criticises the government as it's revealed energy prices are set to rise by an average of £60 per year. Ms Atkins urges the government to "scrap VAT on energy" and "axe the carbon tax". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This government promised in the general election that they were going to cut our bills by £300.
00:05Now we see that they will have risen by £400.
00:08And what they need to do is to look at our cheap power plan and implement it.
00:13So we are saying to the government they need to scrap VAT on energy.
00:17They need to axe the carbon tax, which is having a terrible impact on the ability of businesses to stay
00:24afloat, let alone grow.
00:27And they need to get rid of these outdated levies that Ed Miliband has imposed since the 2008 Climate Change
00:35Act,
00:35which is just having such a terrible impact on our household bills.
00:39Because lots and lots of people will be turning into this news thinking,
00:44I just don't know how I'm going to be able to pay my bills over the winter.
00:48Because on top of this, of course, we also have the spectre of rising food prices, particularly after this bad
00:56harvest.
00:57And the terrible way that this government has treated our farming community.
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