Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing a major Tory rebellion over his proposals to create a net zero “boiler tax” in order to drive forward the heat pump rollout.
The PM is pushing to fine boiler makers who don’t meet heat pump installation targets from April.
Many Conservative MPs are unhappy with the decision and manufacturers have responded to the plans by raising prices by as much as £120 to offset the cost.
This has caused the average tax payer to "pay through the nose" as the cost increases.
Katherine slammed the government for the 'boiler tax'
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Katherine McBryan, a fellow at the Centre for Brexit Policy spoke to Martin Daubney on GB News earlier today.
She said: "It is crazy, I don't know where the government thinks companies get their money from but their only pool of money is their customers.
"To fine them for not selling a product, which quite frankly people do not want, is ridiculous.
"There are many good reasons for people not getting heat pumps and often they live in Victorian terrace houses where they don't have the appropriate outside walls.
People who refuse to replace their gas boiler with a heat pump could be taxed
PA"There would be people who would need to completely draft proof their house before a pump would even work. There is a lot of additional costs before adding this fine."
She then explained that she felt the fine was ''very regressive" and is only "adding insult to injury"
She said that the MP's "don't understand" because Sunak's advisers are young and and "a lot of them rent" so they "don't know what it like to own a house and install a boiler".
She later added: "There is another issue that everyone is avoiding. At the moment electricity is charged at about four time the cost of gas. Not only are they more expensive to install but they are also really expensive to run.
Katherine McBryan explained why people don't want to buy one
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"There are a lot of reasons to not get one.
"People are not deciding to not buy them because they are obstinate, they are not buying them because they have done the maths."
"People have realised that this doesn't make any sense.
"They have realised that they don't want to buy substandard technology that will cost them more."