BBC Breakfast Charlie Stayt and deputy prime minister Dominic Raab came to blows on Friday’s edition of the programme over a tense row on petrol costs.
Recent figures have shown a jump in petrol and diesel prices, with the average cost of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts reaching 167.6p this week.
The politician admitted he wasn’t sure as he’d recently switched from diesel to unleaded, adding that the last time he went to the pumps, the price for a litre of unleaded was 165p. The conversation began to heat up, as Mr Stayt replied: ‘You’ll know very well Dominic Raab that what’s happening in the real world is that people are trying to deal with things and those pump prices, they go up by the day.’
Having tried to interject, it was mentioned that the price for unleaded had recently been spotted at 168p, close to what the deputy prime minister had predicted.
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