HATED Ulez schemes should not be rolled out anywhere else in Britain, Sir Keir Starmer is set to declare.
The Labour leader wants to reassure anxious drivers following last month’s by-election defeat in Uxbridge.
PAKeir Starmer is set to declare that Ulez schemes should not be rolled out anywhere else in Britain[/caption]
Starmer wants to reassure anxious drivers following last month’s by-election defeat
London mayor Sadiq Khan’s expansion of the £12.50 per day emissions zone tanked with voters and has been blamed for the party’s loss in the borough.
At the time, Sir Keir said Labour must be doing something “very wrong” over the policy.
Now, party sources have said he is talking to local government colleagues about a flat-out “moratorium” on Ulez zones in other regions to blunt
Tory attacks in the run-up to the next election.
But Tory chairman Greg Hands last night said Sir Keir was “on record supporting the Ulez tax raid on motorists”.
He told The Sun: “This is all a bit rich coming from slippery Starmer.
“The public cannot trust a word he says.”
It comes as The Sun’s Give Us A Brake campaign demands that no other area introduces Ulez.
Following the 495-vote defeat to the Tories in Uxbridge, Sir Keir told Mr Khan to “reflect” on his green policy but has failed to condemn it.
It has left some Labour figures wondering where the party stands on a Ulez expansion.
An insider said: “Are we for it? Are we against it? It’s a total mess.”
A poll for The Sun recently found voters support the drive to net zero but do not want policies to leave them out of pocket.