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Watering down the UK’s net zero strategy may backfire for Rishi Sunak

Just as ‘stop the boats’ campaign didn’t win the Tories support, their new ‘red wall’-targeting policy on carbon emissions may backfire

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2023

‘It has come in too quickly’: sense of injustice in Uxbridge on day one of Ulez

Aggrieved residents in west London say ordinary motorists – rather than big airlines – are paying price of clean air scheme

The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2023

Starmer ‘ditches commitment to Ulez-style clean air zones across country’

Move follows Labour’s defeat at the Uxbridge by-election due to voter backlash

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2023

Sadiq Khan expands £2,000 Ulez grant to all Londoners with non-compliant vehicles

Capital’s mayor moves to reduce political fallout over scheme’s extension after Tory byelection win in Uxbridge

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3, 2023

Uxbridge was not just an anti-green protest: it was the sour spirit of Brexit revived

This byelection should have been a Labour landslide – but local Tories’ freedom to choose their candidate changed all that, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3, 2023

‘An excuse against Labour’: Uxbridge unconvinced Ulez led to Tory byelection win

Residents have mixed views and misgivings about policy but some say they voted Labour nonetheless

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2023

Rishi Sunak’s drive to survive: are pro-car pledges a ‘vote magnet’?

Rishi Sunak has ordered a review of low-traffic neighbourhoods in England in the latest of a series of pro-motorist moves being seen as a bid to shore up Tory support among voters.

The Week · Jul 31, 2023

Bristol’s low-traffic scheme stalls as row over Ulez spreads from London

The city’s ‘livable neighbourhood’ initiative is threatened by the shock Uxbridge byelection result blamed on the ultra low emission zone

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2023

Ditch green policies, win votes? Tories and Labour wrestle with net zero

Arguments between and within the parties have been inflamed by the apparent ‘Ulez effect’ in the Uxbridge byelection

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2023

Rishi Sunak has resolved to fight dirty. But will his opponent be Labour or his own MPs?

The Uxbridge byelection victory should have bolstered the Tory campaign – instead, it’s triggered a battle over green policy, says the Spectator’s Katy Balls

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2023