My thoughts in Conservative Home on the need for more coherent vehicle emissions regulation:
Extract:
Major change awaits at the end of March. Clearly, I’ve been aware of it for some time but that doesn’t make it any easier to accept.
I realise I’m not going to be directly affected that much but that doesn’t stop me from taking it all personally. If only I could get the decision reversed.
I’m referring, of course, to the impending date at which my hybrid car loses its exemption from the London Congestion Charge. Avid readers will remember my 2017 piece on how I ditched an aged three-litre gas guzzler and implored the ConHome faithful to follow my righteous example. (It was a quaint article written in the days when folks talked about stuff other than Brexit.)
