Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday said London Mayor Sadiq Khan should “properly reconsider” plans to expand the capital’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).
It comes after Khan was accused of manipulating the ULEZ consultation result and making “dishonest” statements to the London Assembly.
Greater London Authority (GLA) Conservatives on Tuesday published around 200 pages of emails and documents obtained through freedom of information requests, which they say prove that interventions by the mayor’s office and the Transport for London (TfL) have skewed the opposition percentage, likely by between 3 to 6 percent.
GLA Conservatives’ transport spokesperson Nick Rogers submitted a formal complaint to GLA Monitoring Officer, alleging that the Labour mayor had made six “false and dishonest” statements and ten “misleading statements” to the Assembly and that his senior staff “improperly used GLA resources to interfere with the ULEZ expansion consultation process to skew the results in the mayor’s favour, most likely under the mayor’s instruction.”…