Jeremy Hunt raising fuel duty would only put a heavy tax burden on working families

Fuel’s gold

DO those in Downing Street really grasp how hard life is for working families ­fleeced by the highest taxes in 70 years?

We hope so. After all, Chancellor ­Jeremy Hunt has admitted that such a burden strangles the economy.

Why, then, would he even consider raising fuel duty next month?

Petrol and diesel prices may have dropped a little from last year’s appalling peak. That’s no excuse to whack them back up.

A few pence off a litre has only slightly eased the pressure on drivers and businesses.

And most small firms say an increase now will force them to sack staff.

It is ludicrous for the Treasury to whinge that it costs money to freeze it. Cheaper pump prices oil the economy’s wheels.

They keep firms profitable, families in work and income tax rolling in.

That is why The Sun has campaigned so hard for so long to keep duty down.

Mr Hunt, you need to listen.

Keep him in

ROBERT Brown was a controlling monster of a husband.

He bludgeoned wife Joanna to death with a hammer within earshot of their young kids and buried her in a hole he had already dug in Windsor Great Park.

It was plainly pre-meditated. So it still boggles the mind that Brown was cleared of murder in 2011.

Instead, the smirking BA pilot got 26 years for manslaughter and is set to go free this year after serving half.

No one can seriously argue this violent bully has been punished sufficiently for the life he took and those he ruined.

So we entirely sympathise with his wife’s mother, battling to keep him behind bars.

Justice was not done a decade ago.

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab should make amends now by ensuring Brown does not get parole.

Peace off

CHINA’S lobbying for peace in Ukraine is cynical and dishonest.

It only wants a truce which gifts its evil ally Putin territory he stole.

Beijing envoy Wang Yi claims anyone who disagrees doesn’t “care about the life and death of Ukrainians, nor the harm on Europe”.

Rubbish. No one cares more about them than Britain. But the Kremlin must NOT be rewarded for its war.

And we’ll listen to “peace-loving” China if it ever stops threatening to invade Taiwan.

Woke chokers

ROALD Dahl’s rattled publishers now, absurdly, want it both ways.

They are releasing their idiotic ­censored versions AND his beloved edgier originals, untouched.

One minute woke. The next, a joke.