UK: Brown calls for pressure on OPEC on oil price

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Sunday for international pressure on oil producers’ group OPEC to bring oil prices down.

“Clearly oil prices are very high. Clearly also there needs to be some international effort with OPEC to get the oil price down,” he said in an interview with Sky News.


Brown also said it was a matter for finance minister Alistair Darling whether a two pence a litre fuel duty rise that has been postponed from April to October could be delayed further.

The Observer newspaper quoted sources in Brown’s office on Sunday as hinting that the October rise may not go ahead.

Reuters