Govt extending fuel duty freeze until end of year

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces the government will extend a freeze on fuel duty "until the end of the year". "Despite the decline in inflation we've seen [...], I obviously recognise the challenges that people and businesses are facing", she says.  Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Today I can announce that we'll be extending the freeze on fuel duty all the way through until the end

00:06of the year.

00:07Given what's happening in the Middle East, it is important that we now provide certainty.

00:13This war is not a war that we started, it's not a war that we joined, but it is having

00:19an impact to people here in the UK.

00:21And despite the decline in inflation that we've seen in the numbers that have just come out,

00:27I obviously recognise the challenges that families and businesses are facing,

00:32and so we're keeping that freeze in place until the end of this year.

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