Four years ago, Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. Almost overnight, your energy bills soared.

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Today, because of the action we took at the budget, the energy price cap is coming down by £117. That means lower bills from April - but I won’t stop until they’re down for good.

Of course, the war is still with us. And we have learned a hard lesson: events overseas do not stay there. They reach directly into our own lives – and into our own homes. They arrive month after month through the letterbox, stamped across rising energy bills.

For too many families, that pressure has not eased - it still hangs over daily choices and late-night worries. I talk to people across the country who worry the cost-of-living crisis will never truly lift, that this is simply the new normal.

Now, I understand why people feel like that. I remember our family sitting around the kitchen table, working out if we could make ends meet each month.

That’s why my........

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