Keir Starmer is preparing to rush through changes that water-down electric vehicle targets as soon as next week as carmakers brace for Donald Trump's tariffs – but carmakers warn the changes don't go far enough.
As President Trump ends the rules and subsidies forcing unwanted electric cars on the American public, UK and European manufacturers are set to be crushed as their EV nightmare is just beginning.
U.K. electric vehicle sales are still way below target, says Paul Homewood. "If you wanted to destroy the U.K. car industry, while enriching Chinese and U.S. manufacturers, I cannot think of a better way to do it."
With his zeal for impoverishing Britain and his imperviousness to inconvenient facts, Ed Miliband is Britain's most dangerous man, says Tilak Doshi. What makes fanatics like him tick?
Luton is reeling from the news that Vauxhall is set to close its car factory after 120 years in a move the company is blaming on the Government's Net Zero EV sales targets. Where are all those 'green jobs', then?
Plummeting fuel duty receipts are driving urgent calls for a pay-per-mile road tax as the rise in electric vehicles threatens to blow a hole in public finances.
