UK drivers in go-slow protest over surging fuel prices: Rail workers have already staged a series of stoppages to press for better pay as Britain's headline inflation reaches a 40-year high
Protesters snarled up major UK roads on Monday with a slow-moving procession of vehicles to demand government action against rocketing fuel prices.
On the roads, a social media campaign called Fuel Price Stand Against Tax mobilised drivers to drive deliberately slowly on motorways and other arterial routes, demanding the government slash fuel duty. Vicky Stamper lost her job as a truck driver last month after the company was forced to cut costs in the face of the surging fuel costs.
But the increase will only apply to new cases, not to tens of thousands piling up in a backlog as British courts wrestle with the fallout of the Covid pandemic.
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