Senior politicians in Britain's Conservative Party pledged today to scrap the Human Rights Act, freeze fuel duty until 2015, and clear the UK's deficit by 2020.

In a speech to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Chancellor of the Exchequer <name>George Osborne</name> said: "Provided we can find the savings to pay for it, I want to freeze fuel duty for the rest of this Parliament." The fuel duty rise had been scheduled for next September. This announcement follows a similar cancellation of a planned fuel duty rise in the Chancellor's March Budget which would have come into force in September.

Party aides said the plan would save motorists £750m a year, with petrol prices 20p a litre cheaper than they would have been if plans by Labour had been followed. <name>Edmund King</name> from The Automobile Association welcomed the announcement on fuel duty, but said: "it is worth remembering that every time there is a spike in fuel prices, the Chancellor brings in money due to the 20 per cent VAT [Value Added Tax] rate on petrol and diesel. This is not exactly a give-away, as even with a duty freeze the Chancellor is still raking in approximately 60 per cent of the pump price in duty and VAT."

<name>Osborne</name> also announced that he intends to end the deficit by 2020 and wants to keep the nation's finances at a surplus. This would be accomplished by a new round of cuts after the election amounting to £25 billion.