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2026-09-15 · Daily Mail

Toll booth Britain! Labour set to hand sweeping powers to private firms allowing them to clobber drivers with new road tolls in latest 'war on motorists'

🔮 - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source New toll roads could spring up across the country under Labour’s latest ‘war on motorists’. mixed

2026-09-15 · Daily Mail

London mayor Lord Khan triples number of 20mph speed limits on roads under his control in Labour's latest 'war on motorists'

🔮 - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Lord Khan, the Labour mayor for London, has more than tripled the number of miles subject to 20mph speed limits on roads under his control. assertive

2026-09-15 · Daily Mail

Drivers forced to shell out extra £7.5 billion at the pumps - netting Treasury £1.3 billion VAT windfall - thanks to Iran war, study finds, as petrol and diesel prices spiral again to four-year high

🔮 It sparked fresh calls today for Labour to use the first Budget of Andy Burnham’s premiership next month to scrap its planned 3p a litre Fuel Duty hike, set to kick in from 1 January. assertive

2026-09-16 · Daily Mail

Hundreds of forecourts already charging £2 a litre for fuel as near-record prices threaten to further stoke inflation

🔮 Analysis of thousands of forecourt prices found 236 were selling diesel at more than £2 a litre, with a further 633 pricing it at 199.9p The cost of filling up the average 55-litre tank in a family car with petrol is now £94 and £107 with diesel Richard Tice, deputy leader of Reform UK, said 'drivers are literally being taken for a ride by Labour' amid a planned Fuel Duty hike If average prices surge past £2 a litre it could trigger protests, as it’s the milestone which has threatened to spark past demonstrations. Surging fuel prices, caused by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the war and global oil supplies being squeezed, have been one of the drivers of rising inflation in the UK, which surged from 2.9 per cent to 3.1 per cent, figures revealed today. It will pile pressure on Labour to abandon plans for a Fuel Duty hike in next month’s Budget, the first of Andy Burnham’s premiership. assertive

2026-09-16 · Daily Mail

Brussels hit with furious backlash after top Eurocrat Ursula von der Leyen unveils unprecedented plan for Canada to become 'associate member' of the bloc without asking EU capitals first, with diplomats branding her 'bombastic'

🔮 But to the surprise of diplomats from the EU’s 27 member nations, who would have to sign off the move, she gushed: ‘Dear Mark, I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships. assertive

2026-10-06 · Daily Mail

Drivers face being priced off the roads by new tolls that could spring up across the country under Labour, officials admit

🔮 Drivers face being priced off the roads by new tolls that could spring up across the country under Labour, officials have admitted. mixed

2026-10-07 · Daily Mail

Drivers paying £10 a gallon for fuel at record number of UK forecourts amid soaring petrol and diesel prices, piling pressure on Labour to abandon New Year fuel duty hike

🔮 Hitting the milestone will pile pressure on Labour to abandon plans to hike Fuel Duty in the New Year after average diesel prices surged to an all-time record of more than £2 a litre last week. assertive

2026-10-08 · Daily Mail

Labour urged to 'stop taxing the s*** out of' holidaymakers and cut flying taxes in the Budget by Ryanair boss and other airline CEOs who also take aim at Andy Burnham's 'Labour f***ing tax and spend government' and 'loony' levy on hotel stays

🔮 They also warned families could be priced out of holidays abroad and took aim at ‘loony’ plans to bring in a new tourist tax on domestic hotel stays. assertive

2026-10-09 · Daily Mail

Andy Burnham's record at stopping the boats worse than Sir Keir Starmer's, figures show, with larger proportion of Channel migrants successfully reaching Britain

🔮 The former Manchester mayor failed to mention the issue in his maiden speech as PM on the steps of Downing Street in July and during his hour-long address at last week’s Labour party conference, raising suspicions it’s not a priority for him. assertive

2026-10-11 · Daily Mail

Police get 'Big Brother' powers to raid homes of EV drivers who dodge new tax - sparking accusations of a 'state power grab'

🔮 Police forces are set to be handed 'Big Brother' powers to raid the homes of drivers suspected of dodging Labour's new pay-per-mile road tax scheme. assertive

2026-10-11 · Daily Mail

Chancellor John Healey under growing pressure to cut Fuel Duty in this month's Budget to help hard-pressed households as AA joins calls to slash the levy

🔮 He called for Mr Healey to extend the existing 5p a litre Fuel Duty relief, first introduced by the Tories and set to expire on January 1, while cutting the levy by a further 5p. assertive

2026-10-14 · Daily Mail

Former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg under pressure to publicly declare Gibraltar belongs to Britain after wife controversially claims it's Spanish territory

🔮 ‘Now is the time for him to confirm the factual position: that Gibraltar is as British as his former constituency, Sheffield Hallam, and will always remain so.’ assertive

2026-10-18 · Daily Mail

Motorway madness: Smart roads 'are now more deadly' as a third of speed cameras have not worked for almost a YEAR

🔮 It meant that on a road where the speed limit increases, a driver may see a sign saying 60mph, but the camera recording it was still working on the basis of a previous 40mph speed limit. assertive

2026-10-19 · Daily Mail

Labour accused of raiding roads budget to pay for ballooning benefits bill as two dozen highways projects aimed at cutting traffic, boosting the economy and reducing accidents are axed

🔮 Since Labour won the 2024 election, they have also announced a new pay-per-mile levy for electric and hybrid vehicles and are planning a Fuel Duty raid in the New Year which would push up pump prices even further after they spiralled following the Iran war. assertive

2026-10-20 · Daily Mail

Labour accused of 'surrendering' to private parking firms as it emerges ministers rejected bringing in a lower cap on tickets, costing drivers up to £1.6 billion

🔮 But it began to unravel today as critics pointed out this was already the existing cap. And the Government’s impact assessment revealed ministers rejected the idea of lowering this to £80 despite being told it could ‘benefit’ drivers. assertive

2026-10-22 · Daily Mail

The infamous 'beer and sandwiches' were replaced by 'cheap unbranded' biscuits and tea: Inside the pre-Budget No 11 backdoor summit between union barons and the Chancellor

🔮 Sharon could start a fight in an empty room,' one source familiar with the guest list said. assertive

2026-10-28 · Daily Mail

Chancellor John Healey condemned for refusing to use his Iran war VAT windfall from sky-high pump prices to cut Fuel Duty in the Budget

🔮 The Chancellor claimed he was doing drivers a favour by freezing Fuel Duty until July next year in today's Budget Pump prices have rocketed since the Iran conflict started, collectively costing drivers an estimated extra £10billion over the last eight months, netting Mr Healey a £1.7bn VAT windfall AA President Edmund King said 'the Chancellor could have gone further and cut Fuel Duty by an extra 5p' assertive

2026-10-28 · Daily Mail

More than half of Britons oppose senior doctors strikes, poll finds, as figures show health unions amassing huge war chests to fund crippling walkouts

🔮 By comparison, less than a third (31 per cent) said they ‘strongly’ or ‘somewhat’ support the industrial action, which will see senior doctors walkout for 48 hours over November 25 and 26. assertive

2026-10-29 · Daily Mail

Ministers urged to break cover and publicly back crackdown on Facebook owner Meta over plans to 'steal' UK publishers' content to train AI models, with publishing industry accusing Government of 'absence of any public support'

🔮 Seen by the Daily Mail, it raises fears the competition watchdog will fail to intervene unless given 'explicit political backing' to do so. assertive

2026-10-29 · Daily Mail

Holidaymakers face higher air fares as new Budget 'green tax' on imported fuels announced by Chancellor John Healey could apply to jet fuel

🔮 Holidaymakers face higher air fares after John Healey revealed a new 'green tax' on imported fuels could apply to jet fuel. mixed

2026-10-29 · Daily Mail

Meta bosses tried to smear academic and author who led global campaign highlighting damage of social media to young people's mental health, court documents show

🔮 This could refer to Andrew Gelman, a Columbia University professor, who had been critical of Professor Haidt. assertive

2026-10-29 · Daily Mail

Facebook owner Meta forced into fresh climbdown over plans to 'steal' UK publishers' content after humiliating defeat in European court, as bosses branded 'hypocrites'

🔮 It is hoped the ruling will make it easier to defeat the plans in the UK. assertive

2026-10-30 · Daily Mail

Facebook owner Meta under investigation by UK competition watchdog over plans to 'steal' publishers' content to train its AI models by imposing 'exploitative terms' on publishers

🔮 Amid a growing clamour for action, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it will probe whether Meta is imposing ‘exploitative terms’ and ‘abusing’ its market position in a bid to ‘scrape’ all content from publishers who use its platforms. assertive

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