Sadiq Khan is plotting a new tax on motorists and I can stop it, says Susan Hall
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Sadiq Khan has a secret, and it’s time you knew.
For over six years, he has been working on a plan to impose yet another tax on motorists.
It starts with his expansion of Ulez, a £12.50 charge on Londoners who can least afford it.
Sadiq chose to expand it to the entire city, against the wishes of an overwhelming majority of Londoners – and despite pledging not to when he last faced the ballot box in 2021.
Now he’s raking in £200 million a year off it, destroying businesses and pushing families into debt in the process.
A nice little earner for him now, but he’s only budgeted for the cash to run until 2027, presumably the amount of time he’s given himself to force Londoners who cannot pay off the road.
That is when stage two starts. Sadiq Khan has been secretly working on a pay-per-mile scheme, a new charge for every single mile you drive.
Even if you got yourself a new car to beat the Ulez expansion. It is like having a taxi meter in your car, but worse. Every mile, you pay a fee that varies, a fee he can change, whenever he wants.
If the traffic is busy, you pay more. If you are driving an old car, you pay more. If there’s a bus you could have caught instead, you pay more. If Sadiq Khan needs more of your money, you pay more.
How do we know this? Because Sadiq Khan has admitted it himself. He told the world in 2022 that he was planning to bring in pay-per-mile, or ‘smart road user charging’ as he sometimes calls it.
Last year, he told the Telegraph that he wanted to bring in a Singapore-style system.
Do you know how much that costs? Up to six Singaporean dollars a mile. That’s about £3.50 at today's prices.
Over there you are charged a fee every time you drive under an ‘electronic road pricing’ gantry.
In London, that would mean paying several quid every time you drive past a ULEZ camera.
He has already started building the technology for it, at a cost of £150 million.
The developers were specifically told that the system needed to accommodate pay-per-mile and they have obliged. He even promised it in his book.
Now, I am sure you read the very interesting self-righteous tract he wrote. But if you didn’t have time, don’t worry.
On page 186, he pledged to introduce a ‘new, more comprehensive road-user charging system, to be implemented by the end of the decade at the latest.’
It is a terrible policy that will cause untold hardship to Londoners already suffering under his unfair Ulez expansion, and plenty more besides.
This charge will be on top of your existing road taxes, meaning you will pay even more than you do now. Now there is an election coming up, Sadiq Khan suddenly does not want to talk about this anymore.
He has written a letter to his TfL commissioner with a pinky promise that he will not bring it in.
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Sound familiar? He did the same thing last election with the ULEZ expansion. And the moment he got the chance, the moment he’d got back into office, he slammed the expansion in anyway. He expects us to believe the £150 million he has spent on the technology will sit unused. He must take us for fools. I will not let this happen.
With your vote on May 2nd, I will chuck his pay-per-mile plans where they belong. In the bin.
Not only will I stop this from happening, but I will also make sure TfL does not have the capacity to re-introduce it if Sadiq Khan somehow got back in. The plans he has made will be destroyed.
Sadiq Khan would not listen to Londoners when he brought in the unfair Ulez expansion. He is not listening now, with his disastrous pay-per-mile plans. I am listening, and as Mayor, I will put this right.
Susan Hall is the Conservative Mayoral Candidate for London.
Responding to her article, a spokesperson for Sadiq Khan said: “The suggestion by the Tory candidate that the Mayor has been 'working on a plan to impose' pay-per-mile in London is completely false, Sadiq has been clear that he has ruled out the introduction of a pay-per-mile road user charging scheme. But the Tories are deliberately trying to mislead Londoners by repeatedly saying this is not the case.
"The Mayor has now put in writing to the TfL Commissioner his clear pledge to Londoners: no pay-per-mile scheme will be introduced while he is Mayor.
"The election on 2 May is a close two-horse race between Sadiq, who is delivering transport improvements for Londoners, and the hard-right Tory candidate who has voted against Sadiq’s TfL fares freeze.”