Sentences with phrase «fuel duty postponed»

Labour wants 3p - a-litre hike in fuel duty postponed for another three months in face of rising bills and stagnant wages

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On fuel duty plans, he continued... «It is good news for the motorist — be they a business or consumer — that the 3p rise in fuel duty has been cancelled and not postponed.

«Given the opportunity to support a call for the UK Government to postpone the planned rise in fuel duty — a rise inherited from the last Labour Government — Scottish Labour astonished the parliament by abstaining.

The chancellor said that following a fall in pump prices of over 20 pence per litre from the summer price, the postponed twp pence per litre fuel duty increase will go ahead from December 1st.

Late last year, George Osborne postponed Labour's planned increase in fuel duty, but the planned increase is due to come into force in August this year.

The Sun's signature campaign in recent weeks has been the campaign that has also been spearheaded by Tory MP for Harlow - Rob Halfon - lower fuel duty and, in particular, a call to cancel or at least postpone the 3p increase in fuel duty that is scheduled for August.

Shadow chancellor urges government to postpone August's planned 3p increase in fuel duty until next year

When we were in government, we postponed fuel duty increases when the economy was weakened, when families were struggling, and that's what the government should do now.»