Gordon Brown to ‘crusade’ against fuel cost with oil producers

Gordon Brown is to embark on a personal crusade to help to bring down the soaring price of oil after announcing plans to travel to the Middle East to co-host an emergency meeting of leading oil producers.

The Prime Minister said that the only way to crack the problem, with the price hovering yesterday at $135 a barrel, was for governments to work together at an international level.

Mr Brown said that he had persuaded King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to host a summit in Jedda next weekend. “I strongly welcome this initiative and will travel to Jedda in order to launch it with King Abdullah,” Mr Brown said at his monthly press conference yesterday.

The Times