But this week, Mr Khan wrote to Mr Klitschko to say he wouldn’t enable the proposal as a result of it didn’t meet the “legal threshold” that requires the Ulez scrappage scheme to profit Londoners from an “economic, social and environmental perspective”.
Susan Hall, the Conservative candidate for mayor of London, criticised Mr Khan’s decision, telling The Telegraph: “Sadiq Khan’s refusal to ship scrapped Ulez cars to Ukraine, citing a authorized quirk, is absurd.
“Londoners who select to scrap their cars ought to have the liberty to resolve for themselves if they need their automobile despatched to help Ukraine.
“Standing with Ukraine towards tyrants like Putin isn’t solely an ethical crucial but additionally in the very best curiosity of all Londoners and the worldwide group.”
Sources shut to Ms Hall mentioned that if she turned mayor she would search to change the regulation in order that Ukraine may obtain the autos.
Richard Lofthouse, who works with Car for Ukraine, a volunteer initiative that delivers 4x4s and vehicles to the entrance line, mentioned Mr Khan had proven a “lack of political courage”.
“Presumably it’s no bad thing and no ‘disbenefit’ for Londoners to actually show solidarity with another free state fighting tyranny, rather than only line the greedy pockets of private scrapyard merchants who are receiving thousands of perfectly good cars as the result of the scrappage scheme subsidy,” he mentioned.
The unpopularity of Ulez – which Labour blamed for its failure to win the Uxbridge by-election earlier this 12 months – is believed to have led to Mr Khan increasing the scrappage scheme.
