The boss of energy firm SSE has told ITV News he "agrees" with Labour leader Ed Miliband over freezing energy prices. He admitted the firm, which has pledged not to raise domestic bills until 2016, has lost several hundred thousands of customers.
Labour leader Ed Miliband claimed the Government's arguments against an energy price freeze have been "totally demolished" by ministers' backing for SSE's own version of the policy.
At Prime Minister's Questions, the Labour leader leapt on the proposal from the Big Six firm to freeze its prices until January 2016.
He asked David Cameron: "Would we be right to assume that the Prime Minister believes that this price freeze is unworkable, impossible to implement and probably a communist plot?"
However, the Prime Minister insisted measures to cut green tariffs were part of the Government's economic plan and insisted the policies were working.
Last September SSE came out against Labour's plans for an energy price freeze, but today the CEO seemed to forget these previous views.
SSE's decision to freeze energy bills is about protecting its shareholders as well as dealing with customers' concerns about rising prices.