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Petrol prices could hit 142p a litre if the Labour Party Chancellor Rachel Reeves presses on with fuel duty plans in the Budget, it has been warned. Ms Reeves is set to deliver the Autumn Budget on November 26, 2025.

Fuel prices could hit 142p a litre if the Chancellor scraps a UK fuel duty freeze, which has been in place since 2011. An additional temporary 5p per litre cut has also been in place since 2022.

The AA has now said the 5p measure is the only factor preventing current pump prices returning to the “worst levels UK drivers endured before Covid and the Ukraine War”.

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Jack Cousens, the AA’s head of roads policy, said the recent increase in pump prices has put the national averages for petrol and die

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