Labour's Wes Streeting insists oil and gas windfall tax is needed to fund new energy plan

Labour intends to put an additional windfall tax on oil and gas giants to fund its key priorities - we ask shadow health secretary Wes Streeting if they will re-think that plan.

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[terryh]

Wes streeting is beyond smug. I hope this country wakes up and does the right thing

[GeoffV-kh]

Tories will bleat that the oil and gas companies must be allowed to continue to rip of the British consumers and pay even less in tax.. so the they can pick up the dividends.

[chilloutcentral]

I think Wes streeting managed that very well

[AndreaStobbart]

Energy prices are shocking it's changed my whole life I live like a homeless person in my house I used a camping cooker I got rid of my cooker two years ago to keep my electric bill down but the extra charges have forced me to totally change the way I live my energy company OVO energy still want more money from me I don't use my light's I use battery powered lights I cannot see an end to the energy companies greed

[alandraper]

Wes Streeting talking about taxing companies. Talk about hypocrisy.
Wasn't Starmer talking about supporting companies. That's soon changed.

[jimoconnor]

Why doesn't the archbishop ask his big boss up in the sky to come down and help out ?

[TZplayer]

"Dianna Johnson has been fighting for Liebour didn't when in power.

[MilankaMilosevic-lu]

French Finance Minister in 1995, Alain Madelain, said around 1997, on television that the bormel functioning of public finances rellies upon the principlle that : ".... Tje State ( the Treasury ) gives to the public with one hand, and with the other hand, the State ( the Treasury ) takes it ( thee that it gave ) back ...." .

[lestrem]

That’s interesting. The Unite union has said that Labour is talking bollocks.

[JeffEbe-texs]

Heard this before
Before the last price increase

[tabazan]

The whole system needs reformation.
We cant carry on having smug rich privately educated self serving greedy politicians running the gaff.
Peoples Assembly!
Power to the People 💚

[singlendhot]

They haven't even entered government and they have already started taxation conversations. Labour is out of the frying pan into the fire!

[fintamaria]

We choose people who only know how to sell Illusions, and then we wait for results…GOOD LUCK…..We don't want to see people who in the past solved problems who had projects and managed them very well, work projects, family projects. People who did from nothing to great things!!!

[Bungle-UK]

He does realise that these costs are just then passed on to the consumer in higher bills - the companies never foot the bill for a ‘windfall tax’.

[markchawner]

Absolutely frightening and bewildering for the country to think that individuals such as this one will soon be in Government of us Hideous, Heaven Help Us 😡

[wilbur]

LAYBOUR PARTY NEED'S DA GET ON DA PILL 💊 SO NEXT TIME LAYBOUR WON'T BE AN ISSUE IF SO CALL JULIA MICHAEL'S HAVE HER SING HER SONG ISSUE'S CUZ LAYBOUR'S GOT REAL ISSUE'S 💊🤣🤣🤣

[crayontom]

Jim Ratcliffe can get in the bin. Migration is keeping the NHS running 😂

[davidoldboy]

After Oil and Gas they're going for a windfall on pensions tax for those that have worked and saved, the usual Labour targets