Why Tories are using cars as a political dividing line in the UK

Rishi Sunak has signalled he wants to turn motoring and the switch to electric cars as a cost of living issue. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

After a week in which Rishi Sunak rowed back on the UK’s climate commitments and delayed a ban on petrol cars, it seems he is making a pitch to drivers a key part of his pre-election campaign. Here are the wedge issues the Tories are expected to deploy against Labour to paint them as “anti-motorist”:

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