Drivers told they pay higher rate of tax than multi-billion-pound firms – as Labour MP backs Sun’s Keep It Down campaign [Video]

MOTORISTS were told yesterday they pay a higher rate of tax than multi-billion-pound firms — as the first Labour MP backed our Keep It Down campaign.

FairFuelUK’s Howard Cox said there was no excuse for targeting drivers in the Budget when duty accounts for 60 per cent of pump prices.

Businesses only pay 25 per cent tax on profits.

Mr Cox’s comments came as Graham Stringer became the first Labour MP to back our crusade to freeze fuel duty.

Mr Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South said: “It would be a mistake to put fuel duty up.

“It would impact the economy.

“If we want to improve productivity which we do, hiking fuel is not the way to do it as it would hit businesses …