Last week, along with over 70 Conservative MP colleagues, I co-signed a letter to the Chancellor urging her to reconsider the impact raising fuel duty would have on low-income families, small businesses and the logistics industry. Fuel duty has been frozen for the past 14 years; raising it will slow growth, cost jobs and raise inflation. Raising it is nonsensical.
It amounts to being just another easy way to penalise the many. It's not just car drivers; this hits public transport too. The financial harm this will inflict will only be felt more acutely in rural constituencies such as South West Devon.
Read the open letter here:
