{"id":511972,"date":"2026-04-04T05:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511972\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:15:11","slug":"starmers-cost-of-living-adviser-calls-for-fuel-duty-cut-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511972\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer&#8217;s cost-of-living adviser calls for fuel duty cut extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lord Walker is the latest politician to suggest the fuel duty cut should remain past September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some Labour MPs have privately questioned why Sir Keir has not committed to ditching the increase, and opposition parties have called for further cost-of-living support to offset the spike in oil prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Conservatives, Reform UK and the Lib Dems have all argued that the war in Iran means the chancellor should keep the cut in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said she is predicting Sir Keir will be forced to announce &#8220;another humiliating U-turn&#8221;. She has also called for cuts to taxes on energy bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead of waiting until September, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the government should introduce an emergency 10p cut to fuel duty immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform&#8217;s Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick has also urged the government to halve VAT on petrol for three months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Green Party of England and Wales said the government should make plans to cover potential energy bill rises of up to \u00a3300 per household.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SNP wants energy policy to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, and has argued that Scottish independence would help reduce bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plaid Cymru has said long-term investment in renewable energy would help protect people from price hikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lord Walker is the latest politician to suggest the fuel duty cut should remain past September. Some Labour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-511972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}