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Narrated by James Marriott
For all the confected outrage, I suspect there was a sigh of relief at St Andrew’s House when Rishi Sunak delayed to 2035 the ban on new petrol and diesel cars, bringing the UK into line with the European Union. Scotland hadn’t a snowball’s chance of doing it in less than seven years anyway.
How many electric vehicle chargers are in your street? Most likely none. The charging infrastructure is a joke, which is why sales of electric cars are falling off a cliff right now. Only the relatively wealthy, who have their own driveways, can afford EVs. We plebs are supposed to walk.
Humza Yousaf was able to blame the Tories for this collision with reality. But what happens now to the rest of