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Freeze in energy bills expected from new Prime Minister

 A stop on energy bills is one of various choices for handling the taking off cost of gas and power due to be introduced to the new head of the state this week. BBC News has been informed a menu of choices has been stirred up in Whitehall to help battling families. Energy industry sources are hopeful the public authority will back an arrangement to freeze the energy cap. Either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will be reported as the new PM sometime in the afternoon. Ms Truss' group is perceived to have been dealing with a help bundle for energy bills "for a really long time" and a declaration on what they will do is made plans for this Thursday. "Heaps of measures have been thought of, some have advanced and some poor person" a source said. Her group don't deny they could present a stop on energy bills. There have been different gatherings between the energy business and government, including pastors near Ms Truss, who is viewed as the leader to supplant Boris John...

Ex-minister Liam Fox gets donation from Covid test firm he recommended

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Conservative MP Liam Fox got a £20,000 gift in June from a Covid testing firm for whose sake he had reached the then wellbeing secretary Matt Hancock. Mr Fox prescribed SureScreen Diagnostics to Mr Hancock in 2020, an email seen by crusade bunch Good Law Project and the BBC shows. The organization proceeded to win a £500m agreement to give tests without confronting contest. A representative for Mr Fox said the story was a "ridiculous smear". It was "devised by the political lobbyist Jolyon Maugham and the Good Law Project", the representative said, and Mr Fox would submit a question. "Unfortunately this ought to be proliferated by the BBC," the assertion gave after distribution, added. SureScreen said it had never paid for any administration campaigning movement. A head of the Derbyshire-based firm messaged Mr Fox in June 2020 to say that they were sending a large number of neutralizer tests for use in emergency clinics in Germany, Spain and Sweden. They s...