The soaring price of energy is affecting everyone, and the hardest hit are the poorest. If we continue to rely on fossil fuels, bills are likely to rise in the long term. Fossil fuels are also driving climate change and polluting people’s land, especially in developing countries.

We need a government that takes both fuel poverty and climate change seriously, not one that puts the profits of big companies before all else.

Michael Lewis, Gate House, Chippenham.