The Tories should see green over Sadiq Khan’s ‘old banger tax’ | Phillip Inman

The ultra low emissions zone will be used by left and right to discomfit the London mayor. The Conservatives should do their environmental bit and support him

A petition against the London mayor's tax on car emissions - the ultra low emissions zone (Ulez) - has yet to reach 100,000 signatures, but is not far off, at 91,000.

This is not a protest against the tax imposed in April on high-emission vehicles travelling into the West End and the City, inside the existing congestion zone. No, the petition is a howl of pain directed at the zone's planned extension to the vast expanse between the north and south circular roads.

Should Johnson become PM, the former London mayor would relish watching Khan suffering a hail of abuse