thank you for prime minister said anyone who wanted to intervene directly in energy market was libbey and a marxist universe. [laughter] can he tell the house how does he feel now that the red peril has claimed john major? >> we are intervening -- [shouting] >> i'm not surprised he wants to quote the last conservative prime minister and also forget the mess that the people in between made of our country. [shouting] >> let me be clear. let me be absolutely clear. i do believe in intervening in the energy market. that is why we are legislating, that is why we are legislating to put customers on the lowest tariffs. now where john major is absolute write is that builds in this country have reached a completely unacceptable level. we need to take action on that. we need to help people to pay their bills and we also need to help to get bills down. this is where we need a very frank conversation about what it is that is putting builds up. we're prepared to have that conversation. he is employed in cynical ploys and gimmicks. >> ed miliband. >> of course john major was a conservative prime mi