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Leading fact-checkers step in as old CyclingMikey video edited by viral Facebook page to falsely claim Rishi Sunak’s wife was filmed using Instagram while driving (YouTube/CyclingMikey)

Leading fact checkers step in as edited CyclingMikey video posted by viral Facebook page falsely claims Rishi Sunak’s wife was caught using Instagram while driving

The video was initially uploaded to YouTube by the road safety campaigner in 2021, the driver who is not Akshata Murty disqualified for six months after receiving six penalty points for her phone use

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Cotham Hill LTN in Bristol (picture Adwitiya Pal)

Government falsely claimed it blocked low-traffic schemes, documents suggest

Papers obtained by a campaign group taking legal action over cuts to active travel budget show Active Travel England deemed council applications to be insufficiently ambitious to receive funding, and transport secretary Mark Harper had no role in decision

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Big Ben © Simon MacMichael

“Crackpot conspiracy theory” led to government slashing active travel funding

Papers obtained for legal challenge to cuts reveal how misrepresentation of ’15-minute cities’ concept is shaping transport policy at Westminster

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Cycling signs (copyright Simon MacMichael) (17)

“When was the last time we heard of bus users against tram users?” Brompton Bike Hire chief blasts Rishi Sunak’s “cyclists versus drivers” rhetoric as “an artificial construct”

The hire bike company’s managing director says he hopes the prime minister’s pro-motoring “wedge politics” will “blow over given time”

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Cycling signs (copyright Simon MacMichael) (23)

Cycling charity accuses Conservatives of “ill-fated attempt to win” votes with pro-motoring policies “undermining” active travel success

Cycling UK reacted to transport secretary Mark Harper's party conference speech by calling on the government to create a plan which includes all modes of transport, describing the proposal as "like trying to complete a jigsaw with half the pieces missing"

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Chris Boardman (Active Travel England)

Chris Boardman urges Rishi Sunak to stick with “fantastic” pro-cycling plans, admits concerns with language of “war on motorists” policies

The prime minister last week outlined his 'Plan for Motorists', a package of measures the subject of a speech from transport secretary Mark Harper this morning at the Conservative Party's conference

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Rishi Sunak official portrait

Rishi Sunak’s ‘Plan for Motorists’ will “rob people of choice” and force them to drive, say cycling and walking campaigners

“This is a plan that looks no further than one way of travelling and will make the roads worse for those occasions when people do need to drive”

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Rishi Sunak official portrait

Rishi Sunak’s watered-down net zero policies could “destroy any hopes of a cycle friendly future,” says Cycling UK

The charity has launched a campaign urging cyclists to write to the prime minister showing their support for cycling and green-friendly schemes

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road.cc Podcast episode 56

Rishi Sunak is “on the side” of drivers – What happened to Britain’s “golden age for cycling”? Plus THAT cargo bike parking row on the road.cc Podcast

We discuss what the Prime Minister’s pro-car agenda could mean for active travel in the UK, while a Bristol family ask why their cargo bike is deemed by the council to be less important than a car parking space…

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ANPR protected LTN in LB Ealing

Rishi Sunak accused of seeking to exploit division over LTNs as he orders review of schemes

Cycling UK urges Prime Minister not to use lieveable neighbourhood initiatives as a “political football”

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