Wider rollout of LTNs has prompted anguished debate, with one former party member standing against Labour over the issue

Sadiea Mustafa-Awan, an Oxford solicitor, spent years as a Labour member, including a decade working for one of the party’s MPs. But on 5 May she will stand for election with the express intention of removing a Labour councillor. Why? It’s all about traffic.

“I just felt that Labour are not listening to residents,” Mustafa-Awan says. “Someone needs to tell them to think again. That’s what I’m trying to do.”

Continue reading…

You May Also Like

Two-child limit on UK welfare benefits ‘has failed to push parents into jobs’

Exclusive: Policy misunderstands realities of caring roles and has left hundreds of…

Through pain and joy, Tina Turner wrote herself into pop history again and again | Alexis Petridis

With her commanding stage presence and astonishingly powerful voice, unbowed even in…

The speaker of the House debacle is the Maga revolution eating its children | Jan-Werner Müller

The extreme Republicans blocking Kevin McCarthy are refusing to accept a loss…