Fuel prices are setting new records every day

Fuel prices have jumped by more than 1p per litre in just a day to reach new record highs.

The average price of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts on Tuesday was 186.6p, according to data firm Experian. The average price of diesel hit a new high of 192.5p per litre.

Simon Williams, the RAC’S fuel spokesman, said: “New records in the average price of petrol have been set every day for the past month with a litre rising 21p, which has added more than £11 to the cost of a tank.

“RAC analysis of the cost of wholesale diesel shows it appears to be heading inexorably towards a previously unthinkable average of £2 a litre.”