The government must declare energy prices a national emergency

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Sign of the times: a protest outside the office of energy regulator Ofgem in London on Friday (Getty)

The news that the energy cap in April could rise even to £10,000 per year for the average household is devastating.

The government must declare this a national emergency and consider every measure possible to ensure the health, safety and security of the nation and of all British citizens. If the government fails to do so, then the Tory party can expect nothing less than to be consigned to history by a British public who will rightly fire it from office.

The crisis may in part or in full have begun with Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine, but it is now the government’s inaction that is continuing it.