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Scared witless by the scale of the fiscal mountain to be climbed after Covid-19, Rishi Sunak miscalculated by freezing personal allowances until 2025-6.

The spiralling charges at forecourts up and down the country has prompted some worries that suppliers could be failing to pass on the Chancellors fuel duty cut to drivers.

With the cost of cod, oil and other ingredients going up, chippies fear customers will stay away.

Petrol and diesel now cost an average of 182.31p and 188.05p per litre respectively at the pumps

Fuel duty has been cut but we are still paying far too much in tax

It could soon cost well over £100 to fill up the average car. Is there any policy that would help?

The cost of filling an ordinary family car such as a Volkswagen Golf has passed the £100-a-tank barrier as a result of the dramatic increase in the cost of petrol and diesel.

Wondering how a leader who raised taxes can rail against his own tax rises? The PM’s big reset speech was full of contradiction and paradox

A Cumbria petrol station is charging well above the national average for fuel.

Possibly be done to help people at the pumps and help consumers? brute the pumps and help consumers? we have the pumps and help consumers? - have written on a number of occasions to government. before and after the spring statement and briefly to request a meeting to discuss how fuel prices work and pressure our members in terms of their rising costs, and today we have not heard back from them. —— and the pressures. so have not heard back from them. -- and the pressures.— and the pressures...