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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment

Populism has polluted the fight for clean air

Sadiq Khan with Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah on the first day of the Ulez expansion. Rosamund's daughter Ella died from an asthma attack in 2013.
Sadiq Khan with Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah on the first day of the Ulez expansion. Rosamund's daughter Ella died from an asthma attack in 2013. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Your interview with Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, for whom I act as a solicitor in claims arising from her daughter’s death, highlights the clear need for an urgent and precise response to address the risks to health from exposure to air pollution (How anti-Ulez campaigners misused air pollution finding in Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah death, 16 September).

The politicisation of London’s ultra-low emission zone makes a mockery of the strengthening scientific consensus that poor air quality causes severe health conditions. History will judge harshly the failure to heed these warnings.

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