Taxi boss uses Wyatt Roy's election loss to warn MPs against legalising Uber

Yellow Cabs boss Neill Ford claims taxi industry campaign against Roy responsible for loss in Queensland seat of Longman

An influential taxi company boss has invoked the fate of the former federal MP Wyatt Roy as a measure of the political risk of backing Uber, after the Queensland government moved to legalise it.

Neill Ford, the managing director of Queensland's largest taxi company, Yellow Cabs, claimed an industry campaign against Roy over his public support of Uber was the key factor in his upset loss in the seat of Longman in the July election.