Four recently elected Conservative MPs have urged the chancellor Rishi Sunak to reverse an EU regulation, which increased the tax on campervans and motorhomes by 700 percent.
The new regulation reclassified motorhomes as commercial vehicles, which meant that, from September last year, excise duty has increased from £265 to £2,135.
Richard Holden, the MP for Northwest Durham told the Daily Telegraph that domestic tourism had been hit because the new regulation was discouraging people from driving around the UK in motorhomes, leaving them to opt for continental travel instead.
"I want it reversed in the budget," Mr Holden said in his entreaty to the chancellor.
"I'm hopeful that we can get some change on it because otherwise we're going to genuinely see a knock on domestic tourism. The tax is only there to raise £28 million a year."
Mr Holden was supported by his three newly elected colleagues, Peter Gibson (Darlington), Paul Howell (Sedgfield) and Dehenna Davison (Bishop Auckland).
Together, they have co-signed a letter to Mr Sunak, urging him to reverse the regulation.
The latter triumvirate also signed a separate letter urging Mr Sunak not to raise fuel duty, arguing that "If the decision was taken to raise taxes on fuel, hard-working people and businesses in blue collar communities – many of which lent us their support at the General Election for the first time in generations – will suffer."
They were joined by fifteen Conservative colleagues, although Mr Holden was not among them.
