DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Fuel duty cut is the very least we need
Daily MailWhile families struggle to make ends meet under the weight of a growing cost of living crisis, the Treasury is positively raking in the cash. Wage growth and high employment have boosted income tax revenues, soaring inflation means higher VAT receipts, and freezing tax thresholds has been an absolute bonanza for Chancellor Rishi Sunak. Chancellor Rishi Sunak could see public finances as much as £50billion healthier than previously forecast And then there is fuel. The Mail understands the need to repair the public finances – and that high inflation increases government debt repayments. Boris Johnson told a Tory conference that the people of Britain and Ukraine had a shared instinct for freedom, and that the Brexit vote had expressed this country’s desire ‘to be able to run itself’.
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