For the first time, according to RAC. Their head of policy Simon Williams said:
“This is a pump price threshold that no-one wanted to cross… The cost of filling up an average family car is now £110, almost £32 more than it was at the start of the US/Iran war. With electricity and gas bills also rising, household budgets will already be squeezed. Drivers will be looking to the government to step in and ease the burden by lowering fuel duty further or reducing VAT in October’s budget.”
Meanwhile British officials are trying to dissuade Trump from his diesel export ban. Out of the frying pan…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”