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Healey’s profiteering warning on food and fuel sparks retailer anger
🇮🇷 IranAug 2, 2026 17:21SRC: GUARDIAN WORLDBY: Sarah Butler
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Chancellor says the government wants to prevent shoppers being ‘taken for a ride’ at the pump or till The chancellor, John Healey, has said the government is standing by to prevent the public “being taken for a ride at the pump or the till” as the Iran war continues to hit prices. While there had been “no significant evidence of so-called price gouging” during the crisis, he used a weekend column to tell the big retailers that ministers were “watching closely” for any signs of profiteering. Cont
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Chancellor says the government wants to prevent shoppers being ‘taken for a ride’ at the pump or till
The chancellor, John Healey, has said the government is standing by to prevent the public “being taken for a ride at the pump or the till” as the Iran war continues to hit prices.
While there had been “no significant evidence of so-called price gouging” during the crisis, he used a weekend column to tell the big retailers that ministers were “watching closely” for any signs of profiteering.
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