I and the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and the rest of the Scottish Labour party launched our campaign to reverse the rise in VAT today.

I am calling on the Chancellor George Osborne to reverse the government’s VAT rise on fuel.

The hike in VAT to 20 per cent in January has added nearly 3p to the price of a litre of petrol and will raise £700m for the Treasury, according to figures from the independent House of Commons Library.

The Labour Party says the VAT rise should be reversed immediately on petrol using the £800m extra the government is now getting from the bank levy, compared to what it was expecting in the last Budget.

You may remember these two posters, one by the Tories from 2008…

…and the Lib Dems campaign below launched only last year weeks before the election here in Scotland their VAT campaign… They seemed to know who was to blame for VAT rises then!

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