New lobby group demands 28%
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• The recently formed People's Fuel Lobby met with transport and agricultural ministers last week to demand a 28% cut in fuel duty for motorists and to warn them that if concessions are not made the people of Great Britain will not stand for it".
The pressure group was formed at a meeting in Altrincham last week. Its purpose was to decide who should represent protesters from around the UK during the 60-day stand-off.
The group's appointment with Transport Ministers Lords Macdonald and Whitty and
Agricultural Minister Nick Brown came straight after the Fuel Forum's meeting last Friday (seepage 4).
The PFL offered ideas to make up for lost fuel duty revenue, such as placing a wellpoliced limit on the amount of diesel UK and foreign hauliers can bring into the country, and levying a toll on foreign hauliers using British roads.
The PFL committee includes David Hanley, chairman of Farmers for Action. PFL spokesman Mark Francis, a Wales-based haulier, says: "We are fighting for everybody—the general public, the haulage and farming industries and other small businesses."