Van drivers set to save hundreds at the pumps – thanks to The Sun’s Keep It Down campaign

CASH-hit van drivers can enjoy a Christmas bonus thanks to The Sun — after it was revealed they will be £215 better off over the next 12 months.

The boost came after Chancellor Rachel Reeves listened to our calls and opted to continue the fuel duty freeze at the Budget.

In another win for our Keep It Down campaign, she kept the levy rate at 52.95p per litre rather than adding an inflationary increase of 7p per litre.

And White Van Man will be the biggest winner, with £215 saved for those clocking up 25,000 miles or more.

The average car driver who travels around 7,000 miles a year is likely to save £55, while families with two vehicles could be £100 better off.

Ms Reeves said: “Protecting people’s pounds in their payslip is Labour’s priority.

“That’s why I took the tough decisions in the Budget, to clean up the Tories’ mess.

“Getting behind the wheel shouldn’t hit families, which is why we made the fair choice to freeze fuel duty, saving motorists hundreds next year.”

When the Chancellor froze fuel duty as part of a £3billion tax break, she insisted an increase would be the wrong choice for working people.

Under the previous government’s plans, the duty rate would automatically have risen by 5p a litre.

Ms Reeves’ fuel levy decision came as she made a series of difficult choices to balance the public finances.

She launched a £25billion tax raid on business with an increase to employers’ national insurance contributions and faced fury from farmers over inheritance tax changes.

But our Keep It Down campaign alongside FairFuelUK helped to keep fuel duty frozen for a 15th year.

Founder of FairFuelUK Howard Cox said: “We are at a critical, even dangerous, fiscal point with this Labour Government regarding how the needless and hugely costly 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel car sales will impact future road user tax levies to the Exchequer.

"For 15 years, I have worked very closely with the brilliant supporter of working people, the Sun Newspaper, to realise a 10 per cent cut in Fuel Duty, and keeping it frozen at most Budget announcements since 2011.

"Labour, keeping Fuel Duty frozen in their first Budget was indeed a surprise, but I see this was a decision not to take on motorists and farmers simultaneously.

"Mark my words, with VED taxes rocketing and the 2030 ban being enforced, I predict even more anti-driver policies being announced by this Government to hit the easiest of cash cows, the UK’s 37m drivers.”