Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed an urgent review into the current fuel market is to take place under the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) following the intervention in Prime Minister’s Questions by West Dorset MP Chris Loder about Morrison’s fuel price in Bridport.
Mr Loder has today urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Prime Ministers’ Questions to intervene over the actions of supermarket ‘commercial predators’ charging up to 20p per litre on fuel more than other nearby stations and not passing on price reductions to consumers.
Mr Loder has been challenging a national supermarket and fuel supplier, Morrisons, who operate a fuel station in Bridport, over their pricing policy which charges motorists from the Bridport area higher than their neighbouring stations.
Mr Loder has written to the Corporate Affairs Director of Morrisons demanding that their pricing policies are reviewed to stop penalising local people.
Mr Loder said; “it is wholly unacceptable for West Dorset to be penalised in this way. Hard working local people, often depending on their car for travel to work, are being discriminated against by a policy that is penalising motorists based on a postcode lottery.”
Morrisons insist that they operate a ‘competitive pricing policy’ based on comparison with competitor fuel stations based nearby, dismissed by Mr Loder.
Mr Loder continued; “it will be a long campaign to secure fairness in our local fuel pricing, but I am determined to ensure West Dorset motorists are not subjected to this unfairness we have seen in recent months”
