Andrew Gilligan: Sticking to the fuel duty freeze and the 2022 Sunak fuel price cut is actually paralysingly dumb

Andrew Gilligan: Sticking to the fuel duty freeze and the 2022 Sunak fuel price cut is actually paralysingly dumb

Andrew Gilligan is a writer and former No10 adviser. Why do governments make life so difficult for themselves? Why do they invent such stupid policies? Why do they reject easy ways of raising money and choose hard ways instead? These thoughts – entirely non-partisan: the Tories were just as bad, or worse – were prompted by reports that Rachel Reeves will carry on with the now 14-year-old freeze on fuel duty in her autumn budget. (It’s supposed t…