Richard, along with the Leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has warned that planned increases in fuel tax will disproportionately impact rural communities, farmers and the wider rural economy.
Rural households are significantly more reliant on cars due to limited public transport options, leaving them more exposed to rising fuel costs.
Farming communities are especially at risk due to Labour’s planned increase in red diesel duty-widely used in farming. The changes mean that by March 2027 farmers will see an approximate 10per cent rise, representing a substantial increase for those already facing the rising cost of fertiliser and the forthcoming Family Farm Tax.
Richard Fuller MP commented:
Labour don’t understand rural communities. If they did, they would never have introduced the hated Family Farm Tax which the Conservatives have promised to overturn as soon as we are back in Government.
Now - just when the cost of fuel and other agricultural commodity prices are on the rise - they are set on pushing up taxes on red diesel. Farmers cannot afford to pay nearly ten per cent more tax on their fuel.
The Conservative Party is calling on the Government to scrap the planned rise in Fuel Duty.
Families are already feeling squeezed and global instability is driving further uncertainty, with inflation set to rise. And now GDP is now expected to expand by just 0.7 per cent this year which is down by 0.5 per cent from the OECD’s previous prediction while inflation is projected to average four per cent this year which is double the Bank of England’s target.
Labour are hitting taxpayers’ pockets through fuel duty hikes, frozen tax thresholds, and green levies to fund spiralling welfare spending. We must axe the fuel tax, ditch the net zero dogma and drill in the North Sea.
Labour must Axe the Fuel Tax, putting the cost of living first–just as we did for 14years. For every year of the last Conservative government, we found the resources to freeze Fuel Duty. Under Labour's plans, drivers face a 1p rise in September, followed by 2p in December and another 2p next March - at the same time as tensions in the Middle East are pushing global oil prices higher, hitting motorists with a double whammy
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