On Tuesday, 4th July, the Conservatives won their first seat on Cambridge City Council since 2012. Mohamed Delowar Hossain was elected to serve the residents of King's Hedges and will fight alongside Chris Carter Chapman, Anthony Browne MP, and other Conservatives across Cambridgeshire to ensure that the damaging congestion charge is scrapped.
In a short statement Chris Carter-Chapman, the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for South Cambridgeshire, said:
"Yet again, the residents of Cambridgeshire have rejected the congestion charge proposals for Cambridge City. Labour and the Liberal Democrats have repeatedly refused to listen to concerns from communities across the county and rightfully they have paid the price at the ballot box on Tuesday evening.
"We have called for a referendum on the Congestion Charge and were denied one, despite the Lib Dems saying this needs to happen for a similar scheme in Cardiff whilst refusing us one here. However we got our referendum in the form of yesterday's vote, and the result is clear - we say no to road charging in Cambridge.
"If this flawed policy were to go through, it would cause irreparable harm to the local business community and make day-to-day life much more difficult for many people. It will hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest and is the very definition of a regressive tax.
"In the by-elections in which we have stood on our opposition to the Congestion Charge over the last twelve months, we have seen dramatic swings towards us in Longstanton, Cottenham and now King's Hedges. Residents have had enough of being ignored by Labour and the Lib Dems, their voice was certainly heard last night."
