This afternoon Mr Johnson gave a speech during which he gave the go-ahead for a brand new nuclear power plant. In what is ready to be his last large coverage speech as Prime Minister he urged his successor to “go nuclear, go massive” to assist scale back power payments for bizarre Britons.

He was hit with a wave of backlash on social media for feedback he made through the tackle.

Slamming earlier governments for failing to put money into nuclear earlier than, Mr Johnson hit out at “paralysis over British nuclear power”.

The outgoing Prime Minister highlighted that whereas investing £700million of taxpayer cash into funding the brand new nuclear plant could also be costly now, in the long term it’s going to assist scale back prices.

“It’s referred to as short-termism” he stated.

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Shadow Labour well being secretary Wes Streeting stated: “Cannot pay your payments this winter, purchase a kettle now and save £10 a number of years down the road.

“That is a saving of 3p a day in 12 months three – earlier than taking inflation into consideration.”

Shadow labour international secretary David Lammy added: “Ofgem: Power payments for a typical family will rise to £3,549 a 12 months.

“The Prime Minister: Purchase a brand new kettle to save lots of £10 a 12 months.

“What a bathe of out of contact gibberish. The Conservatives have to go.”

In the meantime, former chief Jeremy Corbyn stated: “The power value cap will rise 80 p.c to £3,549 subsequent month and Boris Johnson is telling individuals to purchase a brand new kettle to save cash on their payments over the course of some hundred years.

“Cease losing time. We want wealth tax and public possession now.”

Each Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have vowed extra assist for households with power payments in the event that they turn into Prime Minister subsequent week.