SIR – Following Sadiq Khan’s immoral and scientifically unjustifiable cash grab from Ulez (Letters, August 23) – hitting the poorest and most vulnerable hardest – I wonder how long it will be before the middle classes wake up and realize they are next.
It’s time to put an end to this project before it’s too late. Also, net zero is impossible and I can’t vote for any party that doesn’t recognize that fact.
Democracy in Britain is broken and there will be dire consequences for the future of our society if we meekly allow our rights and freedoms to be taken away for some vague greater good.
simon hubbard
Brownhills, Staffordshire
SIR – If holders of blue badges must pay the Ulez tax (report, August 23)why are MPs who drive to work in Westminster allowed to claim it from their allowances?
raymond jones
Modbury, Devon
SIR – British citizens from outside London face tax when visiting the capital. This taxation without representation is clearly wrong. Perhaps the right to elect the mayor of London should be extended to the home counties.
couple of keith
Felixstowe, Suffolk
SIR – Rishi Sunak is certain to have “broad support” in the country for net zero (report, August 17)So why would he deliberately obstruct a referendum to prove it?
Paul Gaynor
Windermere, Cumbria
SIR – While in the short term the expansion of Ulez will cause financial problems for the 10 percent of drivers who own older, non-compliant vehicles, in the long term it will make the air much cleaner, and not just provide health benefits to the poorest people who tend to live in the most congested areas, but also help reduce the cost to the NHS of treating asthma, bronchitis and other chest conditions. Particles have been found in almost every tissue in the body and are believed to hinder children’s intellectual growth, as well as increase the likelihood of heart attacks.
Yes, the transition to cleaner air will be disruptive, but it will have huge benefits for individuals and society.
Michael Miller
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Lord – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard draw attention towards the future, just on the horizon, where heating and cooling will be so cheap that fuel bills will be ignored and charging electric cars will be almost free.
This has echoes of statements made in the 1950s, which claimed that the introduction of nuclear power would make electricity so cheap that it would be given away. Somehow this never happened. I wonder why.
nicolas wightwick
Wrexham, Denbighshire