Reeves has been berated for making this decision at the same time as raising the bus fare cap from £2 to £3, and rail fares by 4.6%. Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said: "For goodness sake. Despite big tax rises overall, the chancellor has done it again. Fuel duty frozen and 'temporary' 5p cut kept.
This government is supposed to care about climate change. And I'm willing to bet fiscal numbers assume increases into the future. How much longer?
Hirra Khan Adeogun, the co-director of the climate charity Possible, said: "Fuel duty will now [have been] frozen for 15 years, while the cost of public transport has gone up and up each and every year. This is completely the wrong way around, and we need to move to a system which makes the greenest ways of getting around the cheapest and most convenient."
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