Rural Britain has been warning that removing the limited energy cost protections would one day collide with global instability - and that collision has now arrived.

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REEVES’ REMOVAL OF ECO PROTECTIONS HAS LEFT RURAL BRITAIN IN THE COLD

By Jonathan McKenna, CEO, Macbrook Gas & Heating

Heating oil prices have soared with unprecedented speed, rising from 66p per litre in early March to as high as £1.73 per litre as conflict in the Middle East tightened global supply lines. For households already on the thinnest margins, this is much more than an inconvenience; it is a catastrophe.

And yet, none of this was unforeseeable. The Middle East remains a permanent flashpoint, Russia’s oil........

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