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Standard backs diesel vehicle tax hikes

10 June 2016
The front page of London’s Evening Standard on 7 June
The front page of London’s Evening Standard on 7 June

 

“It is one of the ironies of environmental politics that no so long ago Gordon Brown’s government actually gave car purchasers incentives to buy diesel rather than petrol cars, on the mistaken basis that they are less polluting,” an editorial in London’s Evening Standard generated by an interview with transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin began on 7 June. “We know better now, and the question is, how to reverse the damage.

“We must act to diminish the...

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