Labour has blamed London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plans to expand London’s Ulez for their narrow defeat in Boris Johnson’s former constituency “It was his damaging and costly Ulez policy that lost them this election,” said Steve Tuckwell eleanormia reports
“The decision in Uxbridge was related to Ulez… The Uxbridge result shows that when you don’t listen to the voters, you don’t win elections,” she told BBC News.news agency: “I think there’s been a number of issues at play, but there has certainly been a number of voters who have said to us that they are very concerned about Ulez.
“Everyone wants to see clean air. But for some people, I think, given the chaos that there is in the economy, because the Conservatives have crashed it and the cost of living crisis that they fuelled, that this is the wrong time to introduce a charge for Ulez.” Mr Beales, Labour’s candidate in the Uxbridge by-election, spoke out against the Ulez expansion during his campaign and told a hustings earlier this month it was “not the right time” to expand it.
He has previously spoken out against the policy, but told the hustings that he’d had “hundreds of conversations on the doorstep” from residents concerned about the cost of upgrading their cars or paying the daily charge.
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