AILEEN'S FUEL TAX FURY

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AN MSP has hit out at Labour and Lib Dem politicians for agreeing to yet more petrol tax increases.

Aileen Campbell SNP list member for the South of Scotland hit out at the MPs, including local Labour member Brian Donohoe, who voted to support the UK Government"s increase in the Fuel Duty Tax.

AA figures have claimed the increase could add around £200 a year to family fuel costs .

The MSP said: 'Pushing up fuel prices is absolutely the wrong thing to do in the grip of a recession and this increase will actually hinder economic recovery.

'Just when the economy should be stimulated we have Labour and LibDem MPs voting for an increase which will hit already hard-pressed households and businesses.

'Increases in fuel duty are not a green tax, they are a Labour one, and the SNP has long campaigned for fair and reasonable fuel duties. That is why our MPs have put forward amendments for a fuel duty regulator to halt the volatility that raises from fuel prices, and supported and led the calls for fuel derogations for rural areas.'

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