Patrick O’Flynn Patrick O’Flynn

Ulez could mark the end of the road for Sadiq Khan

Outer London is in full-scale rebellion against the mayor

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The metropolitan bohemian Withnail, played by Richard E Grant in the film Withnail & I, is so appalled by life away from inner London that he declares: ‘We’ve gone on holiday by mistake.’

Among the metropolitan bohemians who run the Tory party in the capital, the selection of Susan Hall as mayoral candidate was regarded with similar abject horror.

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