Today is the one-year anniversary of Khan’s hated ULEZ expansion – forcing all 32 London boroughs to cough up £12.50 to drive if they happened to have one of the 700,000 non-compliant cars. The tax collects a whopping £715,000 a day from motorists…

Late last month City Hall pushed out an unauthored taxpayer-funded report claiming that emissions had fallen “drastically” thanks to the expansion – it showed roadside Nitrogen Dioxide concentrations were a measly 1.93% lower on average since ULEZ’ expansion. Quite the reward for an anti-worker tax…

Buried in the middle of the report is the admission that it doesn’t measure either the expansion itself or ULEZ in isolation:

“The analysis for the ULEZ shows the impacts of not just the ULEZ and its expansions, but all of the Mayor’s policies to reduce emissions from transport, including those within the Mayor’s Transport Strategy. As such, it is not straightforward to isolate the impact of the ULEZ and its expansions. Therefore the analysis for the ULEZ can be seen to show the impacts of not just the ULEZ and its expansions, but of all the Mayor’s policies to reduce emissions from transport.”

On top of that new analysis claims ULEZ is responsible for £875 million of the total revenue generated by these zones since 2019. Seeing as it cost an extra £500 million to roll out, that’s a pretty hefty price tag. Now non-compliant cars are being forced off the road, Khan will have to think of a new money grab. Have no fear – pay per mile charging is on the way…