Final mechanisms still being ironed out but sounding like borrowing the money to fund anything above the freeze - with levy on households to pay it back over time
On #BBCpapers in a second with @jennykleeman to bring you the latest as Liz Truss prepares to fly to Balmoral tomorrow and become PM
@jennykleeman Worth noting we expect the package to cover both households *and* businesses - will make it more expensive of course but KK made clear in his editorial yesterday Gov aren't afraid to borrow big to deliver it
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PM pretty punchy on climate from his remarks to UN climate round table: "I’m increasingly frustrated that the “something” to which many of you have committed is nowhere near enough.
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PM: "It is the biggest economies in the world that are causing the problem, while the smallest suffer the worst consequences.
the gulf between what has been promised, what is actually being delivered, and what needs to happen… it remains vast. "
"Too many major economies – some represented here today, some absent - are lagging too far behind.
tinkering around the edges, simply denuding the tree of its lowest fruit, simply won’t achieve the change the planet needs."