The Sun saves motorists £100bn after long-running battle to keep fuel duty frozen

THE Sun’s long-running conflict to support substance work frozen has saved cash-strapped drivers a full of £100billion, according to the spending watchdog.

And, successful a telling tribute to our campaign, the determination not to rise pump prices in Wednesday’s Budget won the widest enactment among voters.

A thumping 73 per cent backed it successful a canvass connected Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ announcements.

The argumentation adjacent topped different big-ticket items specified arsenic £22.6billion for the NHS and compensation for the infected humor scandal.

They were supported by 72 and 68 per cent respectively.

The canvass of 2002 adults comes amid claims from the Office for Budget Responsibility that the outgo to the Treasury of maintaining the frost from 2010/11 to 2025/26 volition deed £100billion.

But motorists’ champion and Tory MP Saqib Bhatti deed out: “Their investigation really shows however important cuts to substance work person been since 2010/2011 with drivers redeeming £100billion.

“If it wasn’t from unit from the Conservatives, FairFuelUk and The Sun, Britain’s 37million motorists would person been impacted successful this woeful Budget that has undermined the people’s assurance successful the Government.

“Luckily, we were capable to assistance hard-working families and tiny businesses crossed the state by forcing Rachel Reeves into a U-turn.”

Fears had been mounting that Ms Reeves could reverse the 5p a litre chopped and reinstate an inflationary increase. This could person added £3.85 to the outgo of filling up an mean household car.

Instead the Chancellor resisted Treasury demands — adjacent arsenic she unveiled £40billion of tax rises elsewhere.

The JL Partners canvass for Arden Strategies recovered enactment for freezing substance work is booming crossed each property groups.

It was backed by 83 per cent of voters aged betwixt 55 and 64, portion 71 per cent of voters aged 25 to 34 are besides successful support.

And the enactment besides crosses enactment lines, with 85 per cent of Tory voters, 71 per cent of Labour supporters, and 81 per cent of Reform UK’s backers each down the policy.

Scarlett Maguire, manager astatine JL Partners, said: “The nationalist are afloat down Labour’s committedness to proceed the fuel work freeze.

“It was the most fashionable measure of Rachel Reeves’ archetypal Budget, adjacent trumping the other billions of pounds pledged to the NHS.”

Labour MP Graeme Downie said: “I met with tiny businesses yesterday, who were pleased, and I cognize it is truly adjuvant for mean moving radical arsenic well.”

Hailing the important relation of The Sun’s crusade against substance work rises, the AA spokesperson connected pump prices Luke Bosdet added: “With 70 per cent of commutes to enactment extracurricular London done by car, rising to 81 per cent successful agrarian areas, it is small wonderment that maintaining the work frost was truthful popular.

“It underlines the value of The Sun’s Keep it Down run and serves arsenic a informing for future Budgets.

“The information of the substance is that a hike successful roadworthy substance costs astir hits those connected low-incomes and with finances connected a knife-edge.

“Households person had a miserable 2 to 3 years trying to marque ends meet.

"Resurrecting substance work increases erstwhile petrol and diesel remains precise costly historically would person caused a backlash.”

The canvass besides reveals a stark opposition to different measures announced successful the Budget, specified arsenic the summation successful aerial rider duty, which received lone 47 per cent support.

Increases successful superior gains taxation were approved by conscionable six per cent.

The emergence successful the rate of employers wage successful National Insurance besides got the thumbs-down, with six per cent much respondents against it than supporting it.

Meanwhile post-Budget jitters astir Britain’s maturation prospects person made the outgo of authorities borrowings much expensive.

Government enslaved yields were choppy yesterday but the Chancellor could respire a suspiration of alleviation determination was not a much melodramatic marketplace rout.

Government bonds roseate to 4.46 per cent, somewhat supra the 4.43 per cent a time earlier.

It is inactive higher than the panic level caused by Liz Truss’s mini-Budget meltdown successful 2022, albeit the displacement was acold little dramatic.

Meanwhile, the Pound yesterday strengthened against the dollar backmost to $1.29 and the London banal markets closed higher.

£950 a time is just pay

PAYING a mandarin £950 a time to find payer worth for money is fair, a curate insisted yesterday.

Treasury Secretary Darren Jones defended HS2 committee subordinate David Goldstone becoming seat of the caller Office for Value for Money wherever connected mean helium volition enactment 1 time a week.

Mr Jones said yesterday: “Actually, the time complaint for David is, connected a benchmark basis, competitive.”

Mr Goldstone volition instrumentality up the autarkic relation for a year.