Drawing the wrong lessons from Uxbridge & South Ruislip
modernleft.substack.com
Labour’s failure to take Boris Johnson’s old seat of Uxbridge & South Ruislip overnight has already turned into a blame game, with one report describing the fallout as a “Labour civil war”. Sadiq Khan is in the sights of some – but so are green policies generally, with Khan’s air quality measure, the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) the springboard for wider criticism. Never letting a defeat go to waste, there is now a concerted effort to shuffle blame onto others – such as Khan - and to use Uxbridge as a lever to shift Labour’s policy rightwards on the environment.
Drawing the wrong lessons from Uxbridge & South Ruislip
Drawing the wrong lessons from Uxbridge …
Drawing the wrong lessons from Uxbridge & South Ruislip
Labour’s failure to take Boris Johnson’s old seat of Uxbridge & South Ruislip overnight has already turned into a blame game, with one report describing the fallout as a “Labour civil war”. Sadiq Khan is in the sights of some – but so are green policies generally, with Khan’s air quality measure, the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) the springboard for wider criticism. Never letting a defeat go to waste, there is now a concerted effort to shuffle blame onto others – such as Khan - and to use Uxbridge as a lever to shift Labour’s policy rightwards on the environment.