Freezy does it

RISHI Sunak’s expected freezing of fuel duty, set to save a typical driver £66 a year, marks a decade of victories for The Sun’s Keep It Down campaign.

The emotion motorists will feel on this occasion, however, is likely to be one of relief rather than untrammelled joy.

With petrol prices at record levels, and diesel threatening to follow suit in what the RAC called “a dark day for drivers”, the spectre of 150p a litre looms large.

And the whole country is beginning to feel the chill wind of rising energy and food prices, as inflation starts to bite.

So even if punchdrunk drivers don’t rush to shake Rishi’s hand for his mercy, he deserves credit for doing what he can to keep the economy motoring.

The same applies to his lifting of the minimum wage from £8.91 to £9.50 for over-25s next year.

When David Cameron took power from Labour in 2010, the minimum wage was £5.93, and its steady rise since has far outstripped inflation.

And yet still some will try to peddle the Left-wing myth that the Conservatives are the enemy of the working class.

Luvvly jabbly

JUST seven days ago, when we launched our Give Britain A Booster campaign, the rollout of third vaccines to suppress Covid was inching along painfully slowly.

What a difference a week makes.

Half of over-50s have now had their booster, and the prospects for Christmas and beyond are looking brighter.

Let’s keep it up, but we need ministers not to take their eye off the ball either, and to continue to bolster the jabs booking system and expand pop-up centres.

Covid is going to be part of our lives long term, so we need the infrastructure for a steady, regular rollout, instead of lurching into action at the last moment every time.

Irritate Britain

JUST when you thought it was safe to go back on the tarmac . . . up pop Insulate Britain again to make life worse for us all.

There have been more dangerous activist groups but we’re not sure there has ever been one so infuriatingly dim.

With all the sharpness of lobotomised lab rats, they block our roads in the name of a cause that already had broad public and government backing.

Their self-defeating grandstanding contrasts sharply with the efforts of Sun readers to make real change, as evidenced by our Green Week.

We can only conclude Insulate Britain are motivated solely by a desperate need for attention.

So why don’t we indulge their craving for the spotlight with a new reality TV show where the public can vote to keep them locked indefinitely in a (fully insulated) house?

We could call it Big Bother.

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