Sadiq Khan accused of 'secretly' plotting to bring in 'pay-per-mile charging' on TOP of Ulez

Writing for GB News, Hall said: "Sadiq Khan has admitted it himself. He told the world in 2022 that he was planning to bring in pay-per-mile, or ‘smart road user charging’ as he sometimes calls it.

"Last year, he told the Telegraph that he wanted to bring in a Singapore-style system.... In London, that would mean paying several quid every time you drive past a Ulez camera.

"He has already started building the technology for it, at a cost of £150 million.

"The developers were specifically told that the system needed to accommodate pay-per-mile and they have obliged. He even promised it in his book." She added: "This charge will be on top of your existing road taxes, meaning you will pay even more than you do now.

"Now there is an election coming up, Sadiq Khan suddenly does not want to talk about this anymore.

"He has written a letter to his TfL commissioner with a pinky promise that he will not bring it in. Sound familiar? He did the same thing last election with the ULEZ expansion."

But responding to Hall's claims, a spokesperson for Khan accused the Conservative Party of "deliberately trying to mislead Londoners".

They said: "The suggestion by the Tory candidate that the Mayor has been 'working on a plan to impose' pay-per-mile in London is completely false, Sadiq has been clear that he has ruled out the introduction of a pay-per-mile road user charging scheme.

"But the Tories are deliberately trying to mislead Londoners by repeatedly saying this is not the case.

"The Mayor has now put in writing to the TfL Commissioner his clear pledge to Londoners: no pay-per-mile scheme will be introduced while he is Mayor."

The spokesperson added: "The election on 2 May is a close two-horse race between Sadiq, who is delivering transport improvements for Londoners, and the hard-right Tory candidate who has voted against Sadiq’s TfL fares freeze.”

Khan launched his re-election bid - for a third term - alongside Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer last month.

His campaign launch saw him vow to build 40,000 new council homes by the end of the decade.

The former Tooting MP also used his speech to warn that the mayoral election on May 2 is a “two-horse race” between himself and Hall, who he claimed would “take our city backwards”.

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Hall, who was chosen as the Tory candidate last summer, will face off against Khan on May 2.

She launched her "Listening to Londoners" campaign in Uxbridge just days after Khan, using the launch to highlight local opposition to Ulez, as well as criticising Khan over his record on crime and housing.

Hall accused the Mayor of having "ignored Londoners for eight years", adding: "Crime has spiralled out of control after he shut police stations and failed to recruit police, rents have spiked because he has not built the affordable family homes Londoners deserve, and he has imposed his unfair Ulez expansion tax, hitting the lowest earners the hardest."