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UK cuts VAT on energy bills ahead of prime minister's first cabinet meeting

UK cuts VAT on energy bills ahead of prime minister's first cabinet meeting
France 24 Tuesday 21 July 2026, 10:11 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. UK cuts VAT on energy bills ahead of prime minister's first cabinet meeting UK Issued on: Share Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham kickstarted his programme to ease the cost of living for millions of Britons by planning to remove tax on household electricity bills. The VAT cut is meant to reassure the markets ahead of his first cabinet meeting, with the new prime minister saying it will be funded by the scrapping of his predecessor's digital ID scheme. FRANCE 24's Rochelle Ferguson-Bouyahi tells us more.
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