The deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, asked a BBC presenter how much a litre of unleaded petrol costs in an awkward exchange on live television, adding: ‘I’m just checking how in touch you are.’
The testy discussion came after fuel prices climbed to record highs, with statistics from the data firm Experian Catalist showing that the average cost of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts on Wednesday was 168.2p. Diesel prices reached an average of 181.0p a litre on Wednesday, up from 180.9p a day earlier