Waspi campaigner says Sunak on ‘sticky wicket’ asking for votes until he heeds calls for pension compensation – as it happened

The prime minister, who was appointed to the role by the Conservative party seven weeks after losing a leadership contest to Liz Truss, urged voters to send a message to Keir Starmer during May’s local elections.

A private member’s bill by a Conservative MP, backed by the government, which was attempting to overturn London ’s elected mayor’s Ulez expansion team failed to pass a second reading in the House of Commons.

Qualms about the prime minister’s leadership are rumbling on, with talk of installing Penny Mordaunt or Tom Tugendhat in his place, but those calls may become more public and louder from some Conservative MPs if the party loses mayoralties in Tees Valley and the West Midlands on 2 May.

In her media round appearance this morning, Labour shadow cabinet minister Emily Thornberry said her party would not be making any commitments until the government had put forward its response, telling Sky News viewers:

Photograph: Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/ShutterstockDuring the 2019 election campaign, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour manifesto committed to a £58bn compensation package, which would have involved an average of £15,380 being paid to each of those affected.

Gareth Johnson, Conservative MP for Dartford, has tabled the Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) bill in a bid to give ministers the power to overturn the expansion.