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Why Boris can't blame rising energy prices on Ukraine

What is really to blame for the cost of living crisis?

19 March 2022

9:00 AM

19 March 2022

9:00 AM

Are you ready to take cold showers to do your bit for the war effort? Protestors in Berlin have been holding up placards suggesting they’d sooner do so than use Russia’s gas. Boris Johnson has called on the British public to make similar sacrifices, solemnly telling us that we need to drop cheap Russian energy and ‘accept that such a move will be painful’.

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