However, standing charges – the figure consumers pay per day to have energy supplied to their homes – are set to rise by 4% for electricity and 14% for gas, or 7p a day, primarily driven by the ...

It comes as the Housing Secretary is set to pledge that the construction of three new towns will begin before the next election.

The Government will ‘do whatever it takes to get Britain building’, Steve Reed is expected to tell Labour conference.

Sir Keir Starmer hopes a policy blitz including a promise to construct new towns will help revive Labour’s fortunes.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar will make his keynote address to the UK party conference in Liverpool on Sunday.