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Right-leaning papers urge PM to override Treasury and bring in fuel duty stabiliser

The prospect of a fuel duty stabiliser to protect Britain’s motorists from rising petrol prices has received the lion’s share of transport-related media coverage of late, with the papers suggesting that there is a major rift within Government concerning the policy proposal.

Rik Thomas
28 January 2011
The Daily Mail on 10 January and The Sun on 20 January
The Daily Mail on 10 January and The Sun on 20 January
The Daily Express on 24 January
The Daily Express on 24 January

 

Media Coverage of transport issues in January was dominated by rising transport fuel prices, and what the Government may, or may not, be in a position to do about them.

The key policy that several of the right-of-centre national daily papers have come to advocate is the fuel duty stabiliser scheme that was a Conservative Party manifesto commitment in the run-up to the May 2010 General Election. The signals being transmitted by the Government to the media on whether it is actually planning to...

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