Guido finds those huge 4×4 faintly ridiculous outside the school gates. The only hazardous road surfaces they navigate are the speed bumps. Clearly Ken thinks they are popular with the Boris-Voting-Classes and sees them as a chance to hike taxes and indulge in a little Bash-the-Rich populism. All par for the course with Ken.

Later this morning Ken will announce that big-engine cars in the centre of London are so grave a threat to life as we know it, that they will be charged £25 per day to exist. The new congestion-cum-enviro-cum-spite charge will be called the Emissions Related Congestion Charge – ERCC

However, it has been established that the massive jams and diesel-fired pollution seen in East and North London does not actually exist. So there will be no need for any extension of the charging zone….