The Proposal to Expand the U-Les in London

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Sadiq Khan, the city's Labour Mayor, has made it his number one issue to tackle that. The U-LES already covers in London, an area of about 340 square miles. Mr Khan is proposing to extend it to the whole of the rest of the city. When that happens, it will triple in size, covering about 9 million residents. But recent electoral results indicate that this may not be the case in the outer room.

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