British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in an interview with ITV News published on the evening of April 9 that he was unhappy with the rise and fall of energy bills due to the actions of the presidents of the United States and Russia.
The British Prime Minister said: “I am fed up with families across the country seeing their energy bills constantly jump – as well as business bills – because of the actions of Putin or Trump somewhere in the world.”
In the column published In The Guardian seven minutes after the interview aired, Starmer wrote that because of the war in the Middle East, the UK government had curbed rising energy bills and invested heavily in developing its energy sector “to eliminate dependence on dictators who manipulate gas prices.”
The invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces in February 2022 led to a sharp increase in energy prices, as did the US-Israel war with Iran, which began on February 28. Moreover, after the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on the night of April 8, raw material prices fell sharply.