Mayor says he will monitor Paris’s plan to triple levies for large vehicles and could copy policy if it cuts emissions and pollution

An SUV parking charge may come to London, Sadiq Khan has indicated, saying he is looking to see if Paris’s plan to triple levies for large vehicles works.

The city’s mayor was speaking at an event where he apologised on behalf of the Greater London Authority to the family of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who died in 2013 aged nine as a result of London’s dirty air.

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