The deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, requested a BBC presenter how a lot a litre of unleaded petrol prices in a clumsy change on dwell tv, including: ‘I’m simply checking how in contact you might be.’
The testy dialogue got here after gas costs climbed to report highs, with statistics from the information agency Experian Catalist displaying that the common value of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts on Wednesday was 168.2p. Diesel costs reached a median of 181.0p a litre on Wednesday, up from 180.9p a day earlier