People in Uxbridge & South Ruislip have been reacting after a close and eventful by-election.
The Labour Party also blamed ULEZ for the loss, as shadow justice secretary Steve Reed insisted those responsible for the policy needed to "reflect".
In theory that should have worked against the Conservatives, but the problem for Labour was that the ULEZ expansion got mixed up in that cost of living argument. The Conservatives were able to seize on that and turn it into an issue that dominated the debate around this by-election - particularly when clear division between the local Labour candidate and Sadiq Khan was exposed after Danny Beales said it was the "wrong time" for ULEZ.
Uxbridge is an area where Labour haven't won a seat in parliament since 1966 and this time it slipped away from them… local opposition to the ULEZ will have played a part in why Labour didn't get over the line.Natalie Kantovich, a lawyer from Uxbridge, said she thought Labour lost "because they don't offer anything new, exciting or different".
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