The average family will pay £386 more on petrol for their cars this year on top of the Tory tax rises and the cost of inflation, Labour has said.
Labour said the soaring petrol prices comes as 25 million workers are due to be hit with a tax rise this spring, with the average worker set to lose a further £255.
Louise Haigh MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary, said: “This is a savage extra cost for millions of working people.”
“The Conservatives could help working people being hit hard by soaring prices – instead they’ve rejected the choice of a one-off windfall tax on oil and gas producers raking in billions.”
Rishi Sunak is coming under increasing pressure to act on the spiralling cost of living crisis in his mini-budget later this month.
The SNP’s Alison Thewliss MP said the chancellor “cannot be allowed to hide behind Ukraine” over the spiralling cost of living crisis.
Thweliss, the SNP Treasury spokeswoman, demanding emergency help for families at the spring statement on 23rd March.
She said: “This Tory crisis has been a decade in the making, with rising costs compounded by damaging Westminster decisions over Brexit, Tory austerity cuts and a failure to invest in renewable energy, stagnated wages, decimated social security, and left the UK completely exposed.”
“Rishi Sunak must not cynically use the war in Ukraine as cover for years of Tory failure. There is no excuse for inaction from the Chancellor when the majority of families face a devastating blow to their household incomes.”
Thewliss added: “Instead of preparing a list of excuses the Chancellor should be preparing a comprehensive package of support.
"He should convert the £200 energy loan into a more generous grant, scrapping the regressive National Insurance tax hike, reversing the £1040 cuts to Universal Credit, matching the Scottish Child Payment UK-wide, and introducing a Real Living Wage to boost incomes.”
