Most women are not Jeremy Clarkson-style petrolheads; their cars take them to work, their children to school, and their elderly to the health centre.
If Sunak stands up at the Conservative Conference in four weeks’ time with nothing better to offer than some anti-ULEZ tub-thumping, he might as well hand over the keys to Downing Street to Starmer now.
If Sunak really is serious about a post-Uxbridge buttering up of motorists, scrapping the 2030 target would not be a bad place to start.
An emphatic 66 per cent are opposed to LDNs – and a socking great 83 per cent to the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030.
Government can use research grants, low business taxes and pro-innovation policies to resolve the difficulties. It makes little sense to plough on with taxes and bans.
Johnson’s deadline for ending petrol and diesel car sales was always over-optimistic. In our darkening international environment, it is an act of ludicrous folly.
The danger of the Government’s policy is it will be better at destroying the existing motor industry than at building the new one that Ministers want.
The Government needs to work with industry to set a practicable strategy rather than announcing unworkable timeframes first and consulting with industry experts later.
Consultation found three quarters of Outer London residents oppose the expansion, and neighbouring councils are refusing to cooperate.
We must not give up hope, but instead give hope to our people out there who need us to win despite everything that has happened.
Some of the arguments for a directly elected or mayoral model seem to be set up against a straw man.
We’re closer to a greener, cleaner, safer planet, but the real success of the summit will only be determined in the years ahead.
Johnson, Street, and Houchen have all embraced the bike, and reaped the rewards both for the party and the nation.
It’s hard to think that the right future is to be a less research-intensive country than the rest of the world, and so I hope our commitment will endure.
As conservatives, we need to be the voice of common sense when it comes to local transport.