Boris Johnson has said he would not “rule out” cutting VAT on energy bills. Asked why he had not done so yet, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “I don’t rule out that we will do it.”
He was non-committal when asked if he would cut fuel duty further. “We’ve already cut fuel duty by record amounts,” he said, but he acknowledged this would be “swallowed up” and added: “There may be more that we have to do.”
Pressed on whether the tax will be further slashed, he said: “We want to make sure that those cuts are properly passed on to the consumer.”
During the same interview, the PM would not give a figure by which Channel crossings need to come down before it is known the Rwanda migrant policy has worked.
He said: “I’m not going to give you a figure.” He said the “humane policy” is about “breaking the business model of those who criminally abuse and cheat people crossing the Channel in unseaworthy vessels”.
