Rayner’s Welsh ‘Cheaper Energy’ Spin Falls Apart – Guido Fawkes

GUIDO VERIFY: Rayner’s Welsh ‘Cheaper Energy’ Spin Falls Apart

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Welsh Labour is putting out promotional videos of Angela Rayner claiming “two Labour Governments working together” get you “cheaper bills and warmer homes.” Guido Verify has examined the claims…

The Rayner video promotes Labour’s June expansion of the Warm Home Discount to everyone on means-tested benefits and the Welsh government’s Nest scheme. The former discount expansion only cuts bills for a quarter of households while the Nest scheme has given 60,000 Welsh households free energy improvements since way back in 2011. Seeing as there are 1.3 million households in Wales that is 4.6%…

Guido Verify has compared this to actual energy bills the July 2024 energy price cap, set by Ofgem, was £1,568 annually for a regular dual-fuel household paying by Direct Debit. Between 1 July and 30 September 2025, the energy price cap is set at £1,720 per year for the same household. An increase of £152 – neither cheaper nor warmer…

UPDATE: A Welsh Conservative Spokesperson tells Guido:

“Energy bills in Wales have not come down with the price cap increasing across the whole of the UK since the same period last year. Over the past 26 years of Labour in Wales, in addition to high energy bills, we have lower educational outcomes than the rest of the UK, water bills rising to become the highest in the UK, a 7% increase in council tax this year alone, more than 10,000 people on two year hospital waiting lists and fewer people in work. This is what the rest of the UK has to look forward to under Labour.”