FairFuelUK welcomes fuel duty freeze

Quentin Willson of FairFuelUK said: "Our intense lobbying, campaigning and empirical economic evidence that cutting duty is good for the whole economy has resonated with the Chancellor. We are grateful to him for the continuing freeze that’s lasted five years.

"But let’s not forget the UK motorist remains the highest levied tax contributor in Europe. He could have been more courageous for the economy's sake and cut it by 3p. Be warned, this is probably now a fiscal platform for him to increase duty in the April Budget."

Howard Cox of FairFuelUK said: "Great news that duty is frozen for the fifth year in a row. But George Osborne should have been bolder and cut duty on all fuels. The CEBR evidence is indisputable. He has missed a proven and ideal opportunity to increase consumer spending that generates new jobs, more VAT, a boost to GDP and as a result more growth tax revenue.

"We still pay the highest prices in the western world at the pumps due to his punitive and unnecessary taxation levels on drivers. He did not even mention fuel duty, so we can only assume that putting it up in the 2016 Budget is on the table. Our fight goes on for taxation sanity at the pumps."