Campaigners push for fuel duty cuts as pump prices are 'crippling low-income families'

They said on average, 65.3 percent of petrol and diesel prices are made up of tax alone.

This was on par with Italy, while France and Ireland were slightly lower at 64.5 percent and 63.5 percent.

Craig Mackinlay said: “Pump price rises are bad for the economy, bad for inflation, bad for business and bad for jobs.

“The CEBR for FairFuelUK, showed motorists in the poorest 10 percent of the UK population already spend proportionately twice as much of their disposable income on fuel as wealthier groups.”

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Campaigners push for fuel duty cuts as pump prices are ‘crippling low-income families’