Voices: Martin Lewis is right: the energy price cut is welcome – but not quite as good as it looks
A few weeks ago, the BBC’s Newsnight programme conducted a focus group of disillusioned voters who were mostly pretty negative about our leading politicians. Asked who, in an ideal world, they’d like to have as prime minister, quite a few volunteered the name “Martin Lewis”, the well-known founder of Money Saving Expert and consumer champion.
Of course, Lewis has no political ambitions (so far as we’re aware), and even for a man of his adamantine, not to say saintly, integrity, political office might force him into the kinds of messy.
