Hard-up Brits need a break – Jeremy Hunt cutting fuel duty is a win for both voters and his party

Hunt’s duty

IF there’s one tax break Jeremy Hunt mustn’t shirk from in next month’s Budget, it’s fuel duty.

Millions of drivers are once again paying more at the pumps as prices have risen in recent weeks.

That’s after months of disgusting profiteering when lower global oil prices weren’t passed on at the forecourts.

So it is crucial the Chancellor once again backs The Sun’s Keep It Down campaign, which for 13 years has stopped duty soaring alongside inflation and saved drivers a small fortune.

The reasons are obvious.

Not only would a 5p increase in duty chip away again at household budgets.

It would be catastrophic for small and medium businesses — the engine room of an economy that has been puttering along on low growth for far too long.

Keeping fuel prices down is also a surefire way to instil a much-needed feelgood factor among voters.

This has become a make-or-break Budget for the Tories.

Mr Hunt cannot afford to misfire.

Church & hate

WHAT better proof of the Left’s insane fetishisation of the pro-Palestinian cause than a choir containing children being encouraged to sing an anti-Semitic chant?

Charlotte Church seemingly thought nothing of asking young kids to belt out “From the river to the sea”.

Undeniably, those words call for the destruction of Israel — the only Jewish state in the world.

Where does “wellness guru” Church think those Jews should live?

Why is she apparently leading the brainwashing of young minds to believe that ethnic cleansing of Jews is acceptable but Israel’s right to take on Hamas terrorism is automatically genocidal?

Just days ago Met Police officers stood by and did nothing as the same message was beamed on to Big Ben.

The line hasn’t just been crossed. It’s being rubbed out daily.

Hate is winning. Enough.

Dying for help

A GRIM milestone was passed yesterday as President Volodymyr Zelensky announced 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the war, alongside tens of thousands of civilians.

For the first time in the two years since Putin’s invasion, Zelensky only spoke of his country “not losing” rather than winning.

He has been forced into such talk by a shameful failure of the West to deliver weaponry on time.

On top of £1billion in US aid being blocked is the EU’s pathetic confession that ammo promised for this month won’t reach Kyiv until the year’s end.

Don’t they realise that if Ukraine loses, we all do?