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Reform 'Cuts Fuel Prices' in Notts Petrol Station 'Takeover'
The party said the discount matches a three-month VAT cut and urged Rachel Reeves to drop a planned 5p fuel duty rise.
- On Tuesday, Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick and Ashfield MP Lee Anderson lowered fuel prices at a Gulf petrol station in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, to pressure Chancellor Rachel Reeves to halve fuel VAT to 10%.
- Global oil prices surged to about £74 a barrel following the breakdown of talks with Iran, prompting Reform to argue that halving fuel VAT to 10% would provide immediate relief to motorists.
- Green Party activists heckled Jenrick at the event, while the party proposed funding their fuel plans by scrapping green schemes to save around £12.1 billion by the end of parliament.
- A HM Treasury spokesperson dismissed Reform's claims of a "VAT windfall" as "economically illiterate," stating that rising fuel prices lead consumers to reduce other taxable spending.
- Chancellor Reeves plans to unwind a 5p fuel duty cut between September 2026 and March 2027, though Reform has pledged to reverse this hike and scrap what they term "lunatic" green levies.
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Rachel Reeves ‘betraying’ drivers by not halving VAT on fuel – Robert Jenrick
Reform UK is calling on the Government to ‘lighten the load’ for drivers.
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Reform MPs stage one-day fuel price cut in Nottinghamshire forecourt stunt
Nottinghamshire’s Reform MPs say their party would look to reduce fuel prices across the country following a stunt at a rural petrol station. Amid heckling from a Green Party demonstration, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick announced that the price of petrol at the Gulf petrol station on Southwell Road, Lowdham, would be slashed by 13p […]
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