Prime Minister 'out of touch' on fuel
SNP Westminster Transport spokesperson, and MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Angus MacNeil, has branded Prime Minister Gordon Brown 'out of touch' after he said petrol cost £1.10 a litre.
Mr MacNeil said that in the Western Isles - and across many rural areas - fuel is around £1.35 per litre.
Speaking after Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon (Wednesday) Mr MacNeil said: "I don't know when Gordon Brown last filled up his car at a forecourt, but he's living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks fuel costs £1.10 a litre in rural Scotland.
"The Prime Minister used the excuse of high oil prices, but the reality is that fuel is cheaper today in Ireland than it was in the UK a year ago."
Mr MacNeil went on: "Gordon Brown has to face facts that it is Labour's tax on fuel that is causing the problem, and he should introduce a fuel duty regulator as the SNP propose in the Finance Bill.
"The UK Government agreed to a rural discount scheme in France. Why won't Gordon Brown allow the same in the Scottish Highlands and Islands where the Treasury is collecting more tax per litre than anywhere else in the UK?"
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07 May 2008 4:25 PM
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