Tricia Marwick accuses Lindsay Roy of hypocrisy over fuel prices
ByNews reporter
Steve MacDougall, Courier, Fife Institute, Viewlands, Glenrothes. General Election Vote Counting. Pictured, the candidates during the results. Pictured, winner Lindsay Roy, Labour Candidate.
SNP MSP for Central Fife Tricia Marwick accused Labour MP Lindsay Roy of hypocrisy over his U-turn on fuel prices.
Mrs Marwick hit out after Mr Roy wrote to Chancellor George Osborne calling for the urgent establishment of a fuel duty regulator, which would see fuel duty cut when oil prices increased.
In 2009, Mr Roy voted against SNP amendments to the Labour budget that would have seen a regulator introduced but has since changed his mind on the issue, despite Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray not backing The Courier’s call for a mechanism to stabilise fuel prices.
“The SNP has consistently backed fair fuel prices and my SNP colleagues in Westminster have regularly tried to introduce a fuel stabiliser only to be voted down by Labour every time,” Mrs Marwick said.
“It is clear today that Labour’s Scottish leader would not introduce a fuel stabiliser and that Labour MPs are saying one thing to the press and doing another in parliament.”
Mr Roy said, “Oil prices have increased again, hence my support for a fuel price regulator.
“This is a judgment call I’ve made in light of circumstances and it is not hypocrisy.”
Tricia Marwick accuses Lindsay Roy of hypocrisy over fuel prices
