A decision by Britain's governing party to get a lawmaker elected by attacking London's flagship anti-pollution policy has raised questions over whether the country's green agenda risks being derailed at the next national election.
The Conservative Party has embraced reaching net zero by 2050, while the main opposition Labour Party says it has more ambitious plans for 100% clean power by 2030.
National Labour leader Keir Starmer, whose party is comfortably ahead in national opinion polls, said the expansion plan had been decisive in his candidate not winning in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.Under Khan's scheme, the zone will become one of the world's largest to tackle pollution, encompassing 5 million extra people in the capital's leafier and less-connected outer boroughs.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - whose lukewarm embrace of the green agenda has been criticised by some in his party - last month criticised Khan for imposing ULEZ "against the overwhelming views of residents and businesses." "I doubt there are that many votes in an all-out assault on government's green priorities... partly because so many of them are abstract enough to be far enough in the future," he told Reuters.While Starmer and Khan are at loggerheads over ULEZ, the original policy was planned by a Conservative - Johnson himself while he was London mayor.
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