PUBLIC HEALTH

Centralisation is the real problem in the ULEZ debate

While mayors are grappling with the implications of facing the important issue of air quality, central Government is making local action to clean up the air we breathe as difficult as possible, says Zoë Billingham.

By Zoë Billingham | 16 August 2023

It is almost a month since the Uxbridge by-election and the political debate about policies to clean up our air rages on.

But what is notably missing from the discourse, and the real problem at its heart, is that it is the result of a dysfunctional central-local government relationship.

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