PRESS ASSOCIATION -- MPs today unanimously passed a motion calling on the Government to consider a "price stabilisation mechanism" to tackle rising fuel costs.
The Government came under pressure to ease the burden of high fuel costs on motorists as MPs approved a motion calling on ministers to take action on high pump prices.
In a debate triggered by an e-petition signed by more than 100,000 people, the Commons heard calls for next year's proposed rise in fuel duty to be scrapped.
The backbench motion, tabled by Tory Robert Halfon, was approved without a vote after Prime Minister David Cameron gave his backbenchers freedom to support it.
The motion called on ministers to consider a "price stabilisation mechanism" that would work alongside George Osborne's fair fuel stabiliser to "address fluctuations in the pump price".
But with a 3p rise in duty due in January, Harlow MP Mr Halfon went further in his speech and called on ministers to abandon the planned increase.
He said: "We must show that tax cutting is a moral creed, we must show this is a Government for the many and not the few, a Government that cuts taxes for millions of British people and not just for millionaires."
With scores of Tory MPs signed up in support of the motion, Mr Cameron avoided a revolt by opting for only a single-line whip, which informs MPs of the Government's position but does not instruct them which way they should vote.