Consumer champion

Quentin never stopped fighting for a fairer deal.

Award winner

Fair prices for new cars

Quentin won the Press Association Motoring Writer of the Year Award for his work to bring UK new car prices down to European levels – saving British motorists £3 billion.

Westminster

A regular face in Parliament

He lobbied ministers and MPs to get a better deal for Britain’s 40 million licence holders.

A FairFuelUK lorry outside the Houses of Parliament

FairFuelUK

The UK’s most successful single-issue lobby petition.

Co-founder

FairFuelUK

Quentin co-founded FairFuelUK to campaign against rising fuel duty.

FairFuelUK campaigners with a giant cheque banner in March 2011

3 March 2011

At the door of Number 10

Quentin handed in the first wave of the petition at 10 Downing Street – over 120,000 signatures gathered in little over five weeks.

Quentin Willson at 10 Downing Street with the FairFuelUK petition
Quentin handing in the first wave of the FairFuelUK petition at 10 Downing Street, 3 March 2011. Photo: Jeff Gilbert

£100 billion

Two million signatures

His two-million-signature FairFuelUK petition saved UK motorists £100 billion in fuel duty and VAT rises.

His two million-signature FairFuelUK petition has saved UK consumers £100 billion in fuel duty and VAT

Cleaner motoring

Campaigning for low-emission and electric cars.

Government

Working with ministers

Quentin worked with the government and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles, and gave evidence on transport electrification to Select Committees and House of Lords round tables.

EV adoption

Campaigning with Boris Johnson

He campaigned with Boris Johnson for greater EV adoption, and lobbied ministers and MPs for better EV incentives and charging infrastructure.

Quentin Willson with Boris Johnson

FairCharge

FairCharge

Quentin’s FairCharge campaign pushed for a wider understanding of electric cars, and for more charging infrastructure.