No 10’s Ulez stance reverses ‘decades of clean air progress’, says Sadiq Khan

Rishi Sunak's lack of support for expanded scheme risks stunting Londoners' lungs, says mayor in run-up to Tuesday's launch

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Rishi Sunak has put decades of progress on clean air into reverse" and now risks stunting the lungs" of London's children by failing to support the expansion of the capital's ultra-low emissions zone, Sadiq Khan has said.

Ahead of the clean air scheme's rollout to all boroughs in the capital on Tuesday, the London mayor issued a stark warning to Sunak who he said risked going down in history as the prime minister who had the chance to save lives but refused to take it".