The UK Telegraph reports:

Reeves’s pay-per-mile tax ‘risks becoming poll tax on wheels’

Electric vehicles face new levy as Chancellor scrambles to make up for falling fuel duty revenue

Having subsidised EVs for years, it looks like payback time is approaching.

Under current plans, to be announced by the Chancellor on Nov 26, drivers of electric cars will be charged 3p per mile on top of other road taxes.

The scheme, set to kick in from 2028 after a consultation, will mean the average driver faces paying an extra £250 a year - which the president of the AA said risked becoming “a poll tax on wheels”.

Of course what is also likely to happen is that fuel tax will be steadily raised on non-EVs so that it eventually becomes prohibitive to drive them and everyone will be forced to buy an EV whether they like it or not.

The same will happen with domestic fuel VAT so that we all have to switch to heat pumps whether we like it or not.

Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride tells us: If you own it, Labour will tax it.

The UK is in ripe for a US-style tea party.