{"id":186567,"date":"2023-08-30T21:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=186567"},"modified":"2023-08-30T21:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T21:25:57","slug":"a-dozen-labour-candidates-at-next-election-back-ulez-and-other-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/a-dozen-labour-candidates-at-next-election-back-ulez-and-other-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"A dozen Labour candidates at next election back ULEZ and other schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A dozen Labour candidates at the next general election revealed to have backed ULEZ and other low traffic schemes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>London mayor Sadiq Khan expanded ULEZ to cover all of London this week<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alistair Strathern, who will stand for Labour in Mid Bedfordshire, is pro-LTNs<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A dozen\u00a0Labour candidates at the next general election are current or former councillors at London town halls which backed anti-car measures such as low-traffic neighbourhoods and Ulez.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates, many of whom have spoken out in support of the schemes, are being put up by Labour in seats across Britain.<\/p>\n<p>It will raise fears the party will export its hated &#8216;green&#8217; measures across the country if it wins the next election. This week London mayor Sadiq Khan pressed ahead with his expansion of the ultra-low emission zone to cover all of London, despite huge protests over the daily \u00a312.50 driving charge.<\/p>\n<p>Now analysis by the Daily Mail shows a number of candidates being fielded by Labour have been supportive of the schemes or played a part in their roll-out.<\/p>\n<p>One may win a seat even before the election. Alistair Strathern, a councillor for Waltham Forest Council in east London which has embraced low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), will stand for Labour this autumn in the Mid Bedfordshire byelection sparked by Tory MP Nadine Dorries&#8217;s resignation at the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/30\/21\/74890729-0-image-a-7_1693426162809.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>This week London mayor Sadiq Khan pressed ahead with his expansion of the ultra-low emission zone to cover all of London<\/p>\n<p>He played a key role in the roll-out of the schemes across roughly half of the borough as the cabinet member for &#8217;15 Minute Neighbourhoods&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And in March he tweeted: &#8216;Ulez will play a vital role in tackling shocking levels of pollution in outer London.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Steve Race, Labour&#8217;s candidate for Exeter, has been a councillor for neighbouring Hackney Council while it has rolled out 17 LTNs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Polly Billington, standing in South Thanet in Kent, is also a councillor for Hackney and has defended the expansion of Ulez.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Toale, candidate for Bournemouth West, is a councillor on Labour-led City of Westminster Council, which backs Ulez and hiking fines for non-compliance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/30\/21\/74890803-0-image-a-8_1693426173460.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alistair Strathern, a councillor for Waltham Forest Council in east London which has embraced low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), will stand for Labour this autumn in the Mid Bedfordshire byelection<\/p>\n<p>Damien Egan, Bristol North East candidate, is the mayor of Lewisham, south east London, and backed one of its many LTNs on the grounds that &#8216;the world is facing a climate emergency and we urgently need to do more&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Overnight workers face paying \u00a312.50 ULEZ charge twice if shift goes past midnight, mayor of London is warned\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Juliet Campbell, candidate for Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire, was also a Lewisham councillor while it rolled out its LTNs, as were Joani Reid, who will stand in East Kilbride and Strathaven, and Kevin Bonavia, in Stevenage.<\/p>\n<p>Helena Dollimore, standing in Hastings and Rye, is a councillor on Merton Council and green-lighted its introduction of LTNs, while Adam Jogee, candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyme and Haringey councillor, did the same.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Charters, candidate for York Outer, was a councillor for Newham Council while it rolled out LTNs, and Alice MacDonald, in Norwich North, sat on Southwark Council while it expanded its LTNs.<\/p>\n<p>David Simmonds, Tory MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, said: &#8216;The Uxbridge by-election showed just how unpopular Labour policies are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Selecting pro-LTN and Ulez candidates everywhere shows Labour are putting metropolitan, inner-city policies ahead of the needs of diverse communities. Rural and suburban voters beware.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12462927\/A-dozen-Labour-candidates-general-election-revealed-backed-ULEZ-low-traffic-schemes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen Labour candidates at the next general election revealed to have backed ULEZ and other low traffic schemes London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A dozen Labour candidates at next election back ULEZ and other schemes - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/a-dozen-labour-candidates-at-next-election-back-ulez-and-other-schemes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A dozen Labour candidates at next election back ULEZ and other schemes - 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