Labour has doubled down on its promise of a new “clean air act” This is despite ongoing talks within the party for Keir Starmer to publicly oppose low emission zones in cities outside of London ChaplainChloe reports:
for supporting measures that could cost voters during a time when finances are being squeezed.
Sir Keir has promised several times to introduce a new Clean Air Act to tackle pollution if elected to government.first reported that Sir Keir is planning to publicly oppose the creation of any new low emission areas outside of London in order to take the punch out of any Tory attacks on Labour’s climate policy.
Following the result, Sir Keir told his part that it was fundamentally getting something wrong if “policies put forward by the Labour Party end up on every Tory leaflet”.
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