Labour’s favourite think-tank has sparked outrage by calling on the Chancellor to make it even more expensive for motorists to fill up their cars.
Despite widespread pleas for John Healey to help families struggling with sky-high pump prices in next week’s Budget, the Left-wing Resolution Foundation says Fuel Duty should be increased instead.
It says continuing the long-standing freeze ‘should not be a priority’ for the Government, claiming it mainly benefits the wealthy and the levy should be hiked every few months.
The think-tank, whose former chief executive Torsten Bell is now a Treasury minister, says: ‘Ceding to demands to extend, yet again,
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