our weekly newsletter<\/a> for exclusive and original coverage from ITV News. Direct to your inbox every Friday morning.<\/p>\nHeating oil is not protected by the energy price cap, and its price per litre has doubled due to disruption to oil supplies from the Middle East since the US-Israeli war with Iran began. <\/p>\n
Inside Downing Street, Starmer will say: \u201cIt\u2019s moments like this that tell you what a government is about.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy answer is clear. Whatever challenges lie ahead, this government will always support working people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is my first instinct \u2013 my first priority \u2013 to help you with the cost of living through this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prime minister will also raise concerns over claims some heating-oil suppliers cancelled orders before sharply increasing prices. <\/p>\n
Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband Credit: Maja Smiejkowska\/PA<\/p>\n
Last week, Ms Reeves and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband met oil firm bosses and forecourt operators to warn them against profiteering.<\/p>\n
In his press conference, Starmer will say: \u201cI will not tolerate companies trying to exploit this crisis to make money from working people\u2026 if the companies have broken the law, there will be legal action.\u201d<\/p>\n
De-escalation of the war is the quickest way to reduce cost-of-living pressures for the British public, the prime minister will insist.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has mobilised more than \u00a35 million in aid for humanitarian organisations in Lebanon amid fighting between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah. <\/p>\n
She said she was \u201cgravely concerned about the developing conflict in Lebanon and the scale of the humanitarian impact\u201d.<\/p>\n
From Westminster to Washington DC – our political experts are across all the latest key talking points. Listen to the latest episode below… <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer will pledge to help households with the cost of living amid the energy price spike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}