Ed Miliband has more disappointment in store for Labour voters (Image: PA)

       This Labour Government has only been in power for a matter of months, and yet they’ve already collected a stack of broken promises.

       They promised to protect pensioners, but instead one of their first acts was to scrap the Winter Fuel Payments for 10 million of them.

       They promised not to raise taxes on working people, but last week they delivered a Budget with a record-breaking tax hike which will leave the average household ￡770 poorer by the end of Parliament.

       And they promised that their energy policy, including GB Energy, would cut everyone’s bills by ￡300, but instead bills are going up under Ed Miliband.

       Time and time again Labour told the public that their energy policy, a breakneck rush to Net Zero and the investment of billions of pounds of taxpayer cash through Ed’s pet project, GB Energy, would be a surefire way to cut bills.

       The Prime Minister, the Chancellor, and over 50 Labour MPs promised bill savings of ￡300 a year by 2030.

       However, Ed’s handpicked Chair of GB Energy has already admitted that cutting bills “is not the scope of Great British Energy”.

       And just last week, when we Conservatives tabled amendments to hold Labour accountable to the promises they made the British public, that GB Energy would cut energy bills by ￡300 and create 650,000 jobs, Ed Miliband ordered Labours MPs to vote against their own election pledges.

       So instead, what we are left with?

       Far from the ￡28 billion investment per year that Ed originally said he needed, or the ￡1.7bn he promised in the election, next year Labour are giving GB Energy ￡100 million.

       When energy infrastructure projects can cost billions of pounds, I don’t think ￡100 million will make anyone’s bills cheaper by 2030, do you?

       In fact the NESO report commissioned by Ed’s own new energy watchdog makes clear his energy policies will instead be felt through increased bills - far from the ￡300 claim.

       You can’t have an energy policy that’s driven by ideology. Cheap, reliable energy is the only way we can succeed. The country can only hope Ed Miliband wakes up to that reality before it is too late.

       Claire Coutinho is Shadow Secretary for Energy Security and Net Zero