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Evening Standard
Politics
Katrine Bussey

SNP call for action as Burnham ‘asleep at the wheel’ as fuel prices rise

The UK Government is being urged to scrap VAT on petrol and diesel in this week’s Budget (Jacob King/PA) -

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been accused of being “asleep at the wheel” while motorists are having to pay increasing amounts to fill up with either petrol or diesel.

The SNP has challenged the UK Government to scrap the VAT on fuel in Wednesday’s Budget – claiming such a move could save drivers more than £200 a year if it remained in place throughout the current fuel price crisis.

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