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His current energy supplier, Octopus Energy, told him the problem was down to signal issues in the area and may be because he lived “far up north” - reasoning that left him feeling deeply unimpressed.

Panorama contacted Dr Battu’s energy supplier, Octopus Energy, about the problems he was having with his meter.

However, in what they described as “a highly unusual move”, Octopus told us that it had in fact decided to break the rules and fix his meter by connecting it to the mobile network.

Meter engineer, “Alan”, agrees with Octopus that the rules are too rigid.

Previous effigies have included Rishi Sunak riding a train, Suella Braverman as an octopus and Jeremy Clarkson driving a skip.