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Andy Beill

Talking Point: Should councils spend money to fight Ulez?

Ulez will expand across Greater London on August 29, 2023

(Picture: Ross Lydall)

Four London councils – Hillingdon, Harrow, Bexley, and Bromley – have jointly warned Transport for London they could take court action if the Ulez expansion goes ahead.

Harrow alone has set aside a fighting fund of £400,000 and says it would take its case forward even without the support of the other councils.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has told council leaders they’re “wasting a huge amount of your precious local-authority budgets and money raised through your residents paying council tax”.

He urged them: “Instead of pursuing an expensive legal challenge funded by local residents, I would hope you would work with me to help clean up the dirty air that’s blighting our city and the lives of those we represent.”

Should councils spend money to fight Ulez? Let us know in the comments or on our Instagram for your chance to be featured on the Evening Standard website.

On Friday we asked: What do you think about Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown?

These are some of the replies we received on Facebook:

James Colin: “Will just cancel my subscription simple it’s not that good anyway.”

Andrew Palmer: “I have one acc, we all use it, simple! Changes things and ill leave, i dont watch it enough as it is.”

Reynolds Claire: “Personally it’s there account do as thry want if they start excess charges people will just leave.”

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