By Simon Chandler, News Editor of Choose.co.uk, a consumer information site covering personal finance and technology services.
You can watch Louis from Move Your Money discussing the campaign on Daybreak this morning. He was on at 6.40am, which is at about 36 minutes on this iPlayer link: http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=320361
Originally published in September 2012 at moveyourmoney.org.uk
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