At 2pm on Tuesday 25 November, Lewis Cocking MP for Broxbourne will lead a group of MPs from various parties to deliver a 152,000-signature petition to Number 10 and 11 Downing Street.
The FairFuelUK Petition calls on the Chancellor to cut or, at the very least, keep Fuel Duty frozen in the Winter Budget.
FairFuelUK suggests that ‘rumours are circulating in Whitehall’ that Fuel Duty will be increased by 5p per litre, undoing Rishi Sunak’s temporary cut for Ukraine in the 2022 Spring Budget. Other rumours include 3p pay-per-mile for EVs and the return of the fuel price escalator.
Despite all Labour MPs being invited by an average of 30 of their constituents to FairFuelUK’s pre-Budget walk-in parliamentary reception, only one attended and refused to say whether they supported an increase, freeze, or cut in Fuel Duty.
Labour, says FairFuelUK founder Howard Cox, remains anti-driver and continues to ignore its own voters. In FairFuelUK’s 15th annual ‘open to all’ pre-Budget opinion poll, which has received over 60,000 responses so far, three out of four voters who voted Labour in 2024 support either a cut in Fuel Duty or keeping it frozen.
And in the same poll, one in 10 Labour voters even want Fuel Duty scrapped. How can Rachel Reeves ignore the wants and opinions of the people who gave her political power?
Howard Cox said:
“Keeping Fuel Duty frozen at the very least will be one of the best fiscal stimuli for this unpopular government’s chances of restoring faith in its leadership. In contrast, hiking it could be the final political blow in Labour’s succession of self-inflicted disasters.”
“Fuel duty has remained frozen for the past 15 years, currently standing at 6p below its level when the Labour Party was last in power. This has been of immense benefit to Britain’s motorists and has significantly strengthened the Treasury’s finances by reducing inflationary pressure.”
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