That motorists paid nearly £1billion more for petrol and diesel at supermarkets last year is drive-by robbery.
The big chains cynically raising profit margins to fill their corporate tanks helped fuel the cost of living crisis. That extra 6p per litre at the pumps was at the expense of workers, families and other businesses.
Downing Street, who promised to change the law after the Competition and Markets Authority uncovered the great rip-off, must move quickly and with force. Those found breaching new rules must face big penalties.
Requiring pricing data to be made available for third parties to allow the creation of price comparison apps and websites is intended to generate a competitive market.
And if that doesn’t work in favour of motorists, more drastic interventions will need to be urgently considered or the profits of major chains will continue to go up at the cost of those struggling to meet higher bills.
Tory prejudice
The Tories plunging Britain into crisis is not new, as families and businesses are still paying the cost of Liz Truss’s lunacy.
However the illogicality of blinkered hardline right-wing MPs is breathtaking.
The inability of a couple of dozen anti-migrant self-styled New Conservatives to join the dots on social care is frightening when withdrawing visas for 80,000 carers would leave many more elderly, frail and vulnerable people without vital support when there are already 160,000 job vacancies.
Raising wages, boosting conditions, treating workers better and improving training might encourage more Britons into becoming carers but they don’t propose a detailed plan for that, of course. Instead their prejudice would make life a lot worse and trigger a fresh crisis.
Court in pocket
Overpriced strawberries and Pimm’s are part and parcel of Wimbledon.
And the play being stopped due to rain means the British summer has finally arrived.
