Sadiq Khan has shamelessly abandoned his mayoral campaign pledge to plant two million trees by 2020, a promise designed to outflank the green credentials of Zac Goldsmith. Last week Guido revealed that no trees had been planted and there were no plans to start digging. Sadiq needed to plant 10,000 trees a week to make the target…

Assembly Member Tony Arbour questioned Khan’s environment deputy Shirley Rodrigues today who denied the two million target was a manifesto promise, claiming it “was not in his printed manifesto”. Yet the two million pledge was on his campaign website and widely publicised, here is Sadiq’s tweet from November last year:

I’ll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor – focusing around our schoolshttps://t.co/R5p5EJWQCG #COP21 pic.twitter.com/oGBLuKcOHi — Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) November 30, 2015

Tory AM Tony Arbour said “Sadiq Khan constantly claims he wants to reduce emissions in London but it seems the largest amount of hot air was spouting from his mouth.” The Mayor’s revised pledge is to “increase tree coverage by 5%”. There in black and white, another promise broken…