The Uber ban has exploded young people's

delusion that they live in a free country

Tom Welsh

Corbyn: Cabs must be

safe and must be regulated
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Object 1

The Left have finally done it: theyve overreached. In his transport regulators shocking decision to
ban the taxi firm Uber from Londons streets, the capitals mayor Sadiq Khan has not only
destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of drivers, revealed himself to be the mere tool of powerful
vested interests, and undermined the mobility of the millions of people who use the Uber app as a
low-cost, technologically advanced alternative to the old black cab cartel. He has exposed
something to which too many young people have been peculiarly blind: we are no longer a free
society.
One of the things that must perplex Tories the most about the current state of politics is that the
eternal arguments in favour of Conservatism aspiration, choice and liberty no longer seem to
work. In the Seventies and Eighties, Margaret Thatcher could talk stirringly of private property
being a bulwark of individual...