This article from the Sunday Telegraph Labour drops plans to restrict LTNs in ‘secret war on motorists’ is on such dodgy ground that the journalist (or the sub-editors) have used scare quotes around the fictional concept in the opening paragraph.
Labour has renewed its “war on motorists” by dropping plans to limit new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and 20mph zones.
There’s a laughable set of quotes from Richard Holden, now shadow transport secretary, claiming that not taking forward Tory policy amounts not just to a “war on motorists”, but a “secret” one:
“Conservatives led the charge against unfair and over-zealous enforcement but our work has been ripped up in underhand attacks without any public consultation or manifesto pledge.
“This is a kick in the teeth to motorists, set to punish beleaguered local high streets and will slam the brakes on the economy even more than Rachel Reeves has done so far.”
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