EXPERT COMMENT
The next prime minister of the UK will need to focus on a range on domestic and foreign policy issues.
Rising energy prices
Antony Froggatt, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Environment and Society Programme, Chatham House
The social and economic impact of high energy prices this winter may be greater than that of COVID-19. However, in contrast to the pandemic, there has been ample warning of the expected scale of this crisis.
The European Union (EU) gets much more of its energy from Russia than the UK does, but all are part of a largely informal European price zone which is why UK consumers are now facing, what would have been to many, unimaginable bills despite no longer importing energy from Russia.
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