Britain’s only Green MP has criticised the Mayor of Bristol for failing to act on pollution in the city after the most recent delay to the start of Bristol’s Clean Air Zone.
But Marvin Rees has hit back at Caroline Lucas, saying that if the Green Party were in power, many more people in Bristol would have been left disadvantaged by them starting the Clean Air Zone too soon. The political row came as Lucas, an MP in Brighton, visited Bristol to support the Green Party’s co-leader and city councillor Carla Denyer in her bid to become the party’s second MP at the next General Election.
Caroline Lucas directly challenged Marvin Rees, accusing him of talking a good game on climate change and air pollution, but failing to act on it. She said she visited Bristol in 2016 to call for the Labour Mayor to implement a Clean Air Zone for the city, because of illegal levels of air pollution, but six years on and there’s still no start date - and the CAZ has been delayed again.
