Reform UK Stages Fuel Price Cut to Oppose Duty Rise

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and shadow chancellor Robert Jenrick staged a symbolic price cut at a petrol station in Buxton, Derbyshire, on Tuesday morning, reducing fuel prices by 25 pence per litre for one day to highlight their opposition to the government's planned fuel duty increase.

The event at New Haven Services on the A515 drew crowds and media attention, with the forecourt adorned in Reform UK branding. Jenrick personally updated the pump prices, which the party claimed made the station the cheapest in Britain for the day. Farage and Jenrick used the occasion to outline Reform UK's policy to reverse the Labour government's proposed 5 pence per litre fuel duty hike, scheduled for September amid rising global oil prices triggered by tensions in the Middle East, including the Iran conflict.

Farage criticized the duty increase as an additional burden on working people during the cost-of-living crisis. "These taxes are put on by politicians who don't fill up their own cars, or who ride a bicycle in north London," he said, arguing that the government lacks understanding of those reliant on vehicles for work. He emphasized that while oil prices are influenced by global...