The Guardian view on an energy price cap: a stopgap, not a strategy | Editorial

Theresa May wanted this to be the policy that parked a tank on Labour’s lawn. Not like this, it won’tThere is much to be said for a limited cap on energy prices. But the details of the government plan that was published on Thursday, promising lower bills for 11 million households, are so vague and its political purpose so brazen that it needs to be treated with great caution. Buyer, beware.It is now the stuff of political legend that when Ed Miliband first proposed the idea of a cap