Dramatic plan to overturn Sadiq Khan's low emission scheme receives major new backing

Daily Express ^ | Dec 5 | Story by Luke Chillingsworth

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A plan to overturn London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) scheme has received major new backing just days before the Bill is heard in Parliament.

Gareth Johnson, Conservative MP for Dartford, will present The Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) Bill to the House of Commons on December 6 in a plan to axe the charge.

The new Bill will give Parliament a chance to overturn the expansion after the Tory MP said London Mayor Sadiq Khan had "no mandate" for the scheme.

FairFuelUK, an industry-leading campaign group has now thrown its weight behind the project as the campaign gathers momentum.

Howard Cox, founder of the group and Reform UK's London Mayoral Candidate said that ULEZ had "fleeced drivers" and affected "low-income motorists".

He explained: "I am fully in support of Dartford MP Gareth Johnson's parliamentary attempt to scrap London's pure cash-grabbing ULEZ extension. Mayor Khan's fixation with an alleged air quality improvement scheme that not only needlessly fleeces drivers, sole traders, and low-income motorists, it also rips at least half a billion out of the Capital's economy every year.

"It is way past time, hard-pressed Londoners rid themselves of this dishonest opportunistic career politician, who also brings the Labour Party into disrepute. We must support a new Mayor that will scrap ALL of ULEZ for good, and get London moving again."