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Evening Standard
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Katherine Gray

Westminster Tories accused of ‘U-turning’ on promise for Oxford Street after plans for judicial review ditched

The new Tory leader of Westminster City Council has been accused of U-turning on plans to legally challenge the Mayor of London in court over the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street, after he announced a judicial review was “simply impossible at this late stage.”

In their recent local election manifesto, the Tories promised to “set-up a legal fight fund to challenge Sadiq Khan in the courts and force him to listen to local people.”

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