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Our Mini-Budget Response

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng should hang their fiscal heads in shame by not cutting Fuel Duty.

It seems the Prime Minister is to continue Boris Johnson’s anti driver policies.

Net Zero will bankrupt the UK and the nation’s drivers will remail one of the highest taxed in the world on the back of a virtual signalling green deal.

I am disgusted that yet again drivers are being used as the Government’s cash cows. No promise of keeping Rishi Sunak’s 5p cut in duty and not matching the significant fuel duty cuts across Europe.

No reduction in Fuel Duty means the economic trend growth aspiration of 2.5% per year is unlikely to be hit. It can’t be achieved without lower business costs. One of the largest is the price of transportation that significantly impacts on inflation and the cost-of-living crisis for all of us.

Cutting the cap on bankers’ bonuses may attract more financial companies and investment in the UK. But cutting the costs of transport will attract manufacturers and other businesses to work from the UK, too. It really is a no brainer. Why has the Government failed to recognise that for decades?

Inflation fell by 0.3per cent last month. The reason for this welcome drop, despite food prices still climbing, is almost entirely due to a 10p fall in pump prices in August. 

Making a big cut in fuel duty would drive inflation down and it could have been done by using the extra £3 billions in VAT the Government has received from recent very high pump prices. It would have reduced the huge burden on families and businesses and also boosted tax revenue to the Exchequer from the growth in the economy that would have come as a result.