Natural gas provides roughly under half of the total electricity in the UK. Yet the price of gas – which has been soaring over the last year or so and is the source of so much of our misery – is the benchmark used to set all electricity costs for 84% of the time.

Blatant greedflation: are suppliers or retailers to blame?
The CMA’s new findings appear to have vindicated former Tesco chairman John Allan. But supermarkets aren’t off the hook entirely.