Investments in energy companies have bagged UK politicians the equivalent of £705,000 since January – even as rising energy bills threaten to push millions more into poverty this winter.
It comes as BP is the latest to announce a windfall from the energy crisis, reporting that its profits in the last quarter have trebled compared to last year.
Thirty peers – 21 of them belonging to the Conservative Party – have seen their shareholdings in oil and gas companies soar in value, analysis by openDemocracy has found.
