Editing Anti-Ulez group defends destroying cameras (section)

== Who is supporting the Blade Runners?==

There has been some support for Blade Runners’ tactics, including from Reform party leader and GB News presenter Laurence Fox, who has publicly backed the group on X, formerly known as Twitter.

He said urged the group to “keep going” with their “noble work”, and described Khan as a “thief and a liar”.

Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith MP has also spoken out in support of the group, saying he was “happy” for his constituents in Chingford and Woodford Green to destroy cameras because they had been “lied to”.

Smith said: ”A lot of people in my constituency have been cementing up the cameras or putting plastic bags over them.

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Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has publicly backed the actions of the Blade Runners. (Getty)

”I am happy for them to do it because they are facing an imposition that no-one wants and they have been lied to about it.

”The actions you are seeing show how angry people are at what is being imposed on therm. Sadiq Khan has gerrymandered all the information – people have had enough.'

However, others who have previously spoken out against Ulez have refused to back the Blade Runners.

TalkTV host Julia Hartley-Brewer said the group were taking part in “criminal activity”.

She told Gasto: “I’m massively opposed to this scheme… but I don’t think we should commit criminal acts.”