This is the moment Glasgow protestors gathered outside the Ofgem officers amid the energy price cap.
Glasgow Live previously reported that Ofgem confirmed an 80.06 per cent rise in the energy price cap, sending the average household's yearly bill from £1,971 to £3,549 from October. The cap will come into effect for around 24 million households in England, Scotland and Wales on default energy tariffs on October 1, and will remain in place until December 31, when it will be adjusted again.
Hours after the announcement was made, protestors, including trade union members descended on Albion Street in Trongate. Droves of people were seen stood outside the offices stretching down most of the road, having gathered from 4pm.
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Many were carrying placards while others joined forces to carry banners. Led by one man with a megaphone, they all chanted, 'freeze prices, not people'.
Ofgem's chief executive Jonathan Brearley warned of the hardship energy prices will cause this winter. He urged the incoming Prime Minister and new Cabinet "to provide an additional and urgent response to continued surging energy prices".
The regulator said the increase reflected the continued rise in global wholesale gas prices, which began to surge as the world unlocked from the Covid pandemic, and had been driven still higher to record levels by Russia slowly switching off gas supplies to Europe.
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