Weekend press round-up: Decision to drop social energy tariff ‘betrays most vulnerable’

Fuel poverty campaigners have accused the government of betraying the most vulnerable people in society after failing to include a previously promised social tariff in energy market reforms. Also in the latest round-up of the weekend news, prime minister Rishi Sunak confirms millions of pounds of funding for a carbon capture project in Scotland and a new poll commissioned by the Liberal Democrats finds a quarter of swimmers may avoid the seas this year because of concerns over sewage dumping.

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