Over 50 Tory MPs demand Rishi Sunak slashes fuel duty to help struggling Brits
“But the current circumstances mean the government must go further by either cutting fuel duty or reducing VAT on fuel.”
Mr Halfon, the chairman of the education select committee, added: "We're heading to a de facto lockdown where parents can't afford to take their kids to school, where workers can't afford to commute by car and have to stay at home." Speaking in the House of Commons, he urged Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to "make appeals to the Treasury to cut fuel duty in the spending round next week".
Mr Sunak is under massive pressure to do more to ease the cost of living crunch for millions of families.
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