he s done as pm. the tories are done and thank goodness for it. the damage that they have caused to scotland s people is simply unforgivable. this year, we can rid ourselves of a tory government that scotland did not vote for. and the snp, as stephen has rightly said, is by far the best placed party to do that. in every tory held seat north of the border, we are the party in second place and today, therefore, i m setting out that ambition for the snp, to not only win the general election, but let s wipe the tories from scotland s electoral map by winning every single tory seat in the country. humza yousaf, addressing his party a little earlier. rishi sunak has made an unannounced visit to ukraine, where he promised £2.5 billion in new military aid. the prime minister said he wanted to send a strong signal to vladimir putin that the uk remained a strong supporter
the environment should not be treated as a political football . here s our political correspondent, damian grammaticas a large part of that campaign was about the labour may as ultra low emission zone scheme. talk a screw that. . , emission zone scheme. talk a screw that. ., , , , that. that is exactly right. this was in a seat that. that is exactly right. this was in a seat on that. that is exactly right. this was in a seat on the that. that is exactly right. this was in a seat on the edge - that. that is exactly right. this was in a seat on the edge of i that. that is exactly right. this - was in a seat on the edge of london that used to be borisjohnson s seat. when he resigned and left parliament, that seat came up, it had been a tory seat for quite some time, labourwere had been a tory seat for quite some time, labour were hopeful that they could take it, but they felljust short. the issue, as you say come out that campaign which the conservative party made much of, was this
london s ultra low emissions zone. the letter calls for courage and leadership , and says the environment should not be treated as a political football . here s our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. he told me more about how ulez led to the labour party s loss in the uxbridge by election. this seat on the edge of london used to be borisjohnson s seat. when he resigned and left parliament, that seat came up. it had been a tory seat for quite some time. labour were hopeful that they could take it but they fell just short. and the issue, as you say at the heart of that campaign, which the conservative party made much of, was this plan by the labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, to expand the charging zone for polluting cars, old polluting vehicles to the edge of london, which would have just taken in that constituency, would have faced people
the party s narrow victory in last week s uxbridge and south ruislip by election has been linked to local opposition to the expansion of london s ultra low emissions zone. the letter calls for courage and leadership and says the environment should not be treated as a political football . this seat on the edge of london used to be borisjohnson s seat. when he resigned and left parliament, that seat came up. it had been a tory seat for quite some time. labour were hopeful that they could take it, but they fell just short. and the issue, as you say, at the heart of that campaign, which the conservative party made much of, was this plan by the labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, to expand the charging zone for polluting cars, old polluting vehicles, to the edge of london, which would have just taken in that constituency.
would be able to take uxbridge, considering the symbolism of the seat. it was, you know, boris johnson s former seat and he had been dogged by allegations of sleaze throughout his time in office. there was an expectation they would have been able to take that feat. where they may have messed up here is putting their expectations too high where it was always going to be quite a difficult campaign for them. we are looking at the scene in selby in north yorkshire where we are waiting to hearfrom in north yorkshire where we are waiting to hear from the labour party leader, sir keir starmer. he will be cock a hoop at that win. really significant, isn t it, in that this is not a traditional labour seat in any sense? really a traditional tory seat. there isn t much of a labour base and they have overturned this 20,000 seat majority. what does it say about their chances going forward, given this was a conservative party was like 249th most vulnerable seat, no where near where they had been fig