On a drab, rainy afternoon in an outer London car park, the need for climate action was clear as day for 60-year-old Clement Laurence. “Something has to be done. It’s almost August, look at the weather!” he said, jesting.
Laurence, a retired train driver, lives in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, where the Conservatives clung to victory by 495 votes in a byelection last Thursday. The race turned into a de facto referendum on the controversial Ulez (ultra-low emission zone) policy.
