Tories defy expectations to hold Boris Johnson’s former Uxbridge seat amid row over Ulez expansion
Rishi Sunak should consider abandoning key net zero pledges in the wake of the Tories’ shock Uxbridge by-election win, Cabinet ministers have said.
Senior Conservatives want the Prime Minister to better protect households from the cost of phasing out new gas boilers by 2035 and delaying a ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030.
The Tories defied expectations to hold Boris Johnson’s former Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat amid a row over Sadiq Khan’s expansion of London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez).
Ministers looking for a path to Tory victory at the general election next year are now examining other green “wedge issues” to peel voters away from Labour.